Experts

Carol is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, London. Her research seeks to increase understanding of the factors that affect the production of public services and outcomes for users of these services, with a particular focus on healthcare. Her publications include papers on the effect of market incentives on the quality and productivity of healthcare, the impact of environmental factors on health, the effect of competition on public service production, equity in health and

Eugenio Proto is Research Fellow at CEPR, IZA, CESifo. His research interests range from behavioural economics to development, applying notions of Psychology and recently textual analysis in Economics. He published in the general economic journals Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economics and Statistics and Economic Journal; in several top field economic journals and in some important general scientific journals. He is currently academic editor of Plos One and associate editor of the Journal

Eric joined Harvard’s Growth Lab as a Research Fellow in 2019. Prior to joining, he worked on an Innovations for Poverty Action randomized control trial concerning Ghanaian labor markets, researched energy and technological change in the developing world at MIT, taught in Vanuatu, and helped build two tech startups. Eric holds undergraduate degrees from The University of British Columbia in Economics and Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree from MIT in Technology and Policy. His

Steven Proud is a Reader of Economics Education at the University of Bristol, and a member of the Executive Group for the Economics Network.  He is an applied economist, and his research focuses on education, with a particular interest in developing and evaluating new pedagogies within economics education.  Since 2019, he has been an editor of the International Review of Economics Education.

Talis Putnins is a Professor of Finance at UTS and Chief Scientist of the Digital Finance Co-operative Research Centre. His research interests include financial markets, decentralised finance and blockchains, and forensic finance including market manipulation, insider trading, and criminal financing. Talis regularly serves as a policy advisor and consultant to governments, stock exchanges, financial institutions, and DeFi projects, and an expert witness in legal cases.

Adnan Khan is Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy at LSE. He had earlier served in the policy world and later as Research and Policy Director at the International Growth Centre. He works on public policy, state capacity and political economy. He is affiliated with J-PAL at MIT, the Building State Capability Program at HKS, the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan, the Reducing State Fragilities Initiative at the IGC, and Yale’s Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale