Experts

Susan has over 20 years experience working in market and social research in both Edinburgh and London. Through this she has helped provide insight to a number of charities on the local, national and international level. Since 2016 she has been the Head of Research at the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) where she is on the senior leadership team. In this role she is responsible for CAF’s research outputs which help inform the charity world and beyond. Susan has been a trustee of The Hospice in The

Ahmed Jamal Pirzada is a Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bristol and a Fellow of Advanced Higher Education (FHEA). He specialises in macroeconomics with particular interest in understanding the role of nominal rigidities and production networks in firms’ pricing decisions and the monetary policy. His interests also include exploring questions relevant to emerging economies

Lucinda Platt is a quantitative sociologist whose work focuses on child poverty, ethnicity, migration and child and adult disability. She is a panel member of the IFS Deaton Review of Inequality and is President of the European Academy of Sociology.

Alexander Plekhanov is Director, Transition Impact and Global Economics, at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He edits EBRD’s annual economic report, Transition Report, and the Regional Economic Prospects. His responsibilities also include trade policy and analysis of development impact of EBRD projects. Prior to 2007, he worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC.  Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Daniel Plumley is a renowned Sport Finance Academic in the Sheffield Business School at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. He has experience in teaching, and research in areas including sport finance and accounting, financial decision making, governance and regulation and competitive balance, all under the broader research area of the economics and finance of professional team sports which has defined his career. He is an active researcher, delivering funded projects for ESRC and regularly consults

Thomas Pope is deputy chief economist at the Institute for Government. He works across the Institute’s programme areas. He was previously an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, working on tax and the public finances. He has an MSC in economics from UCL and a BA in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford.