Experts

José Antonio Miranda is a Professor of Economic History at the University of Alicante (Spain). He has been a visiting researcher at the University of York (UK), the University of Padua and the University of Bari ‘Aldo Moro’ (Italy). He specialises in Business History and in the industrial development of Southern European countries. His main current research interests focus on the evolution of fashion industries, industrial resilience and industrial districts. He has published extensively on

Mark is PhD candidate in the University of Edinburgh’s School of Economics, where his research is centred on understanding the causes and effects of labour market inequalities. His current research focusses on understanding the origins of inequalities in human capital, and how early circumstances influence social and economic outcomes across life. Mark is also a Research Assistant at the Fraser of Allander Institute, where he works on a range of topics related to economic policy in Scotland,

Ian Mitchell is an economist and Senior Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development where he leads work assessing the effectiveness of major economies’ development and climate finance policies. He is also an associate fellow with Chatham House’s Environment and Society programme. Until 2016 he was a senior civil servant and economist in the UK Government, most recently as deputy Chief Economist at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs where he led Strategy and

Dr Mitman is an Associate Professor at the Institute for International Economic Studies at Stockholm University and Managing Editor of the Review of Economic Studies. His research interests are in macroeconomics broadly defined. His areas of expertise include monetary and fiscal policy, with a particular focus on unemployment insurance, consumer credit, labour and housing markets.

Paul Mizen has been a member of the faculty in the School of Economics at the University of Nottingham since 1992 and is currently Professor of Monetary Economics and Director of the Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics. He has previously taught at the European University Institute, Florence; Princeton University; and University of Vienna. He has a wide interest in matters related to monetary policy, central banking, business surveys, corporate investment and productivity.

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak is a Professor of Economics at Yale University with concurrent appointments in the School of Management and in the Department of Economics. Mobarak is the founder and faculty director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE). Mobarak has several ongoing research projects in Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Kenya, Malawi and Sierra Leone. He conducts field experiments exploring ways to adopt technologies or behaviours that are likely to be welfare improving.