Experts

Kyriakos Neanidis is Reader in Macroeconomics at the University of Manchester and research affiliate at the Growth and Business Cycle Research Group. His research activity has covered a wide range of theoretical and empirical topics in development macroeconomics, with focus on issues that relate to economic growth, foreign aid, and public finance. He has also contributed to the economics of crime, while recently monetary and macroprudential policymaking have become major interests.

Christopher Neilson is an assistant professor of economics at Princeton University. He studies education markets and information frictions using a combination of empirical methods drawn from Labor Economics and Empirical Industrial Organization.

Brent Neiman is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He conducts research on international macro, finance, and trade and is a co-founder of the Global Capital Allocation Project. He serves as the Director of the Initiative on International Economics at the Becker Friedman Institute, an Executive Board member of the Initiative for Global Markets at Chicago Booth, a Research Associate at the NBER, and a Research Fellow at the CEPR.

Biwesh is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Birmingham. Biwesh holds a PhD from the University of Strathclyde. His main research interests include international investments, emerging markets finance, corporate governance, fintech, sustainable finance, climate finance, trading behaviour, corporate bond markets and initial public offerings. He has published in leading international journals such as British Journal of Management and Journal of Corporate Finance.

David Newbery is the Director of the Cambridge Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) and Emeritus Professor of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge. He has been President of the European Economic Association in 1996 and President of the International Association for Energy Economics in 2013. He is the co-author of eight books, over 150 articles in peer-reviewed journals and numerous other contributions. His honours include the Frisch Medal of the Econometric Society, the special issue of

Callum is a Senior Research and Consultancy Associate at Beauhurst, responsible for leading on the team’s public sector work. Before joining Beauhurst, Callum was a Senior Researcher at Westminster-based think-tank Onward, focusing on ‘Levelling Up’ policy. He was also a Consultant in Portland Communication’s specialist Litigation and Disputes practice.