Experts

Pablo García Guzmán is an Associate Economist at the EBRD Office of the Chief Economist. He holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. At the EBRD, Pablo works with large-scale datasets to produce academic papers and major institutional publications, including the EBRD Transition Report. His research interests include demographic change, migration, and intergenerational mobility and inequality. Beyond his academic and

Johannes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. After studying electrical engineering and industrial engineering, he completed a PhD in economics. His research is in the area of behavioural economics. He has studied the economic effects of honesty, disappointment, fairness, complexity, and fungibility.

Daron Acemoglu an Institute Professor at MIT and an elected fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Philosophical Society, the British Academy of Sciences, the Turkish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is also a member of the Group of Thirty. He is the author of five books, including New York Times bestseller Why Nations Fail: Power, Prosperity, and Poverty

Alessandro Acquisti studies have spearheaded the application of economics and behavioral economics to the study of privacy. His articles have won numerous awards and have been published in outlets across multiple fields, including economics, marketing, computer science, and psychology. His findings have been featured in international media outlets, including Economist, NYT, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Financial Times, Wired, CNN, and 60 Minutes.

Stuart works in the Direct Tax and Welfare sector. His research focuses on analysing the design of the tax and benefit system, and he has written about many aspects of tax and benefit policy, including income tax and National Insurance; capital gains tax; VAT; housing taxation; tax credits; incapacity benefits; council tax benefit; work incentives and redistribution; support for families with children; and local government finance. Stuart was an author and editor of the Mirrlees Review of the UK tax

Abi Adams is an economist at the University of Oxford, where she is the co-convenor of the Applied Microeconomics group. Her work on labour economics and econometrics has been published in the leading peer-reviewed outlets in Economics, Law, and Human-Computer Interaction. She has been awarded a number of grants and prizes for her reseach including a UKRI COVID Research Grant on Inequality & Employment Progression, an ESRC Future Research Leader Award and a Turing-HSBC-ONS Data Science Award for