Experts

Cristina Peñasco is a Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Studies and the current Director of the MPhil in Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is also a Fellow at Queens’ College, at the Centre for the Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) and an associate researcher of the Bennett Institute. With a PhD in Economics, her research lines bring together innovation policy and energy economics with a focus on the policy instruments

Naomi Pendle is a lecturer in the Department of Social and Policy Sciences, the Centre for Development Studies, at the University of Bath. She is a prolific researcher and writer on South Sudan, researching issues of in times of conflict and famine. She has been a director of studies and teacher RVI’s Sudan and South Sudan courses, and was a researcher on the RVI South Sudan Customary Authorities Research project Wartime Trade and the Reshaping of Power in South Sudan.

Andrew Perchard is Honorary Research Professor at Otago Business School, University of Otago, New Zealand. His areas of expertise include business-government relations, deindustrialization, energy policy, and public ownership and privatisation. A former Head of Energy Supply Policy at the Scottish Government, he is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Royal Society of Arts.

Giovanni Peri is Professor of Economics and Director of the Global Migration Center at UC Davis. His research analyzes the economic determinants and consequences of international migrations with focus on labor markets and local economies. He has published in leading Academic Journals such as The American Economic Review, the Review of Economic Studies and the Journal of European Economic Association. The Economist, the BBC, the New York Times and NPR news have often featured his research.

Sarah Perret works as an economist and deputy head of unit at OECD’s Centre for Tax Policy and Administration. Her role involves assessing countries’ tax systems and advising them on tax reform. She has also been leading the work on wealth and inheritance taxation at the OECD and is the author of a number of studies on taxation, inequality and inclusive growth.

Hashem Pesaran is the John Elliott Distinguished Chair in Economics at University of Southern California, an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His research covers national and global macro-econometric modelling, analysis of panel data models with cross-sectional dependence, and the Iranian economy.