Experts

Alice Mesnard is a development economist and Reader of Economics at City, specialised in public policy evaluation and analysis. Among her contributions to this field, she has studied the links between migration and health risks. This has led her to investigate unexpected effects of quarantine measures as observed following the outbreaks of SARS, Ebola and Covid-19 and to develop an app to help people move about safely during pandemics.

Jessica Metcalf is a demographer with broad interests in evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics and public policy, working as part of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the School of Public and International Affairs, at Princeton University.

I am a freelance writer, editor and communications consultant based in London. I specialise in economics, policy and international affairs, and in how best to communicate and amplify research findings. I also regularly write about UK public data. I hold a visiting fellowship at the London School of Economics (LSE) within the School of Public Policy, and am Managing Editor of La Fonte – an online blog I co-founded to promote the latest research from economists based at the European University

Jo Michell is Professor of Economics at UWE Bristol. He studied Economics at SOAS before joining UWE. His research interests include macroeconomics, finance and development. He is Chair of the Post-Keynesian Economics Society, Council member of the Progressive Economy Forum and a Fellow of the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy of the Hans-Böckler Foundation.

Giovanna Michelon is Professor of Accounting at the University of Bristol, where she co-leads the Accountability Sustainability and Governance Research Group. Her research interests are in the field of sustainability accounting and reporting, and her published work has focused on the governance process and systems that underpin corporate actions and accountability on sustainability issues. and the role that sustainability information plays in capital markets. Her work has been published in many

Lucie Middlemiss’s research focuses on the intersection between environmental and social problems, with a particular interest in finding solutions to fuel poverty, and other forms of vulnerability as part of the Net Zero transition. She has also been part of a team who developed a social relations approach to energy research, understanding the role of relationships and identities in shaping people’s energy consumption.