Experts

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.

Benjamin Moll is a Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. He is a macroeconomist interested in understanding how the enormous heterogeneity observed at the micro level, and in particular the large disparities in income and wealth, impact the macro economy and macroeconomic policy. Moll’s work approaches these questions with a mix of theory and empirics. His current work studies the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as those of

Nick Money is a Director at Swoboda Research Centre, dedicated to delivering research on all aspects of credit union development, and events for credit unions. He project manages partner research projects and undertakes research both for Swoboda and as a PhD candidate at University College Cork. He has a particular expertise in credit union governance and strategy. He is also currently a consultancy project supervisor for MBA students at Alliance Manchester Business School, a director of South

Steve Monroe is an assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale-NUS College. His research explores the political economy of development in the Arab world. Monroe’s book project examines how elites’ social connections structure patterns of trade liberalization in the region, and low and middle-income economies more broadly. He also works on gender and development, corruption, and small states.

Patrick Moran is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Copenhagen and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). His research spans macroeconomics, household finance, and applied microeconomics, with a focus on the distributional and behavioural consequences of financial innovation and economic policy. His research has been published in the Journal of Monetary Economics and International Economic Review.

Jonathan Morduch is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University. He focuses on the intersections of finance, poverty, and inequality. His research ranges from RCTs and natural experiments to closely-observed diaries of families living with scarcity. He’s written especially on microfinance and on people’s financial lives. He’s a founder of and Executive Director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative.