Experts

Kevin O’Rourke is an economist and economic historian, and is currently Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, Paris, having moved from NYU Abu Dhabi in 2024. He was formerly the Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the British Academy, and was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Southern Denmark in 2022. He works on the history of globalization and deglobalization. His books include

Nick is a Senior Lecturer in the Future Economies Research Centre at Manchester Metropolitan University. With a background in political science, Nick’s research interests include taxation, fiscal policy, big tech and the digital economy. He has conducted studies into tax reform on behalf of organisations including the European Commission and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and he currently designs and teaches courses on tax policy-making for civil servants from HM Treasury and HMRC.

Ciaran O’Neill has held faculty positions at Queen’s, the University of Nottingham, Ulster University, and NUI Galway where he was Dean of the College of Business Economics and Law before taking up his current post as Professor of Health Economics in the Centre for Public Health. He is a former Harkness Fellow, hosted by the Rand Corporation (USA) and current Chair of the Health Economics Association of Ireland. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles as well as various reports using

Kate joined the IFS as a Research Economist in 2020 and works in the local government sector. Her current focus is the impact of the Covid-19 crisis on local authority finances. She also works on analysis of the ongoing major changes to English local government finance, and another project considering the distributional impacts of spending on public services. Before joining the IFS she worked as an economist at the Cabinet Office.

Timothy Ogden serves as Managing Director of the Financial Access Initiative at NYU-Wagner. He speaks and writes regularly on financial inclusion, microfinance, inequality, and social investment. He is the author of Experimental Conversations, on the use of RCTs in development economics, and of the Weekly faiV, a widely read newsletter on financial inclusion, poverty and economic development. Tim also serves as a senior fellow of the Aspen Institute’s Economic Opportunities Program and Financial

Myrto Oikonomou is an Economist at the Bank of England. She currently works in the Structural Economics Division in the Monetary Analysis Directorate. Myrto holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and is currently reading for her DPhil in Economics at the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in the intersection of international macroeconomics, macro-labour and uncertainty.