Experts

Maria Pia Paganelli is a Professor of Economics at Trinity University. She works on Adam Smith, David Hume, and 18th century monetary theories. She wrote The Routledge Guidebook to Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations (Routledge 2020), and co-edited the Oxford Handbook on Adam Smith (OUP 2013) and Adam Smith and Rousseau (EUP 2018). She is the current President of the International Adam Smith Society, and of the History of Economics Society.

Dr Meredith Paker is an Associate Professor of Economic History, a Fellow of All Souls College, and an Associate Member of the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford. Her research explores how labor markets have adjusted to economic crises and structural change, and how those adjustments have shaped inequality, unemployment, and living standards over time. Her work relies on archival data, econometric methods, and machine learning at the intersection of economic history and labor

Ugo is Professor of Economics and Pictet Chair at the Graduate Institute, Geneva and Vice President of CEPR. His research focuses on Sovereign Debt, Finance and Development, Emerging Market Countries, and Economic Growth. Before joining the Graduate Institute, he was Chief of the Debt and Finance Analysis Unit at UNCTAD and a Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank. He also worked at the World Bank and taught at the American University of Beirut and the University of Torino.

Jonathan A. Parker is the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Finance, Head of the MIT Sloan Finance Department, and co-director of the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy. He has held numerous service positions and consulting positions, including Area Head of Economics, Finance and Accounting at Sloan, Editor of the NBER Macroeconomics Annual, and Special Adviser on Financial Stability for the Office of Financial Stability in the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2009. He currently serves as

Raj is the strategic lead for policy engagement and impact at Understanding Society. He was previously a Director at the Learning & Skills Network, where he ran a large commercial research function and an independent think tank. His career includes formulating strategy and policy at one of the UK’s largest campaigns to stimulate enterprise culture amongst young adults, and heading up Research and Development at the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit in the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (now

Urvish is a member of the Macroeconomics Team at NIESR, working on forecasting the UK economy and contributing to ongoing improvements in NIESR’s global macroeconomic model, NiGEM. He is also developing models for the devolved nations of the UK and has been focusing on the rising cost of living and subsequent squeeze on real incomes in the UK. His main research interests are in macroeconomic performance and policy, especially in India, and Central Banking, particularly macroprudential policy.