Experts

Formerly Research Professor, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, having also previously been a Visiting Professor, Stanford University, and Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. He has a first degree in Economics from Warwick, a Masters degree from LSE and a Ph.D. from Cambridge. His research interests encompass the analysis and measurement of the determinants and effects of technological change in current and historical perspectives with a particular emphasis on the factors

Till Stowasser is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Economics at the University of Stirling. His research focuses on topics in Applied Microeconomics, especially Behavioral Economics, Organizational Economics, Political Economy, and Health Economics.

George is an Associate Director at IFS, and leads the Institute’s work on healthcare. He joined the IFS in 2011. His research focuses on understanding variation in the returns from healthcare, exploring how patient outcomes vary across different healthcare providers and across different patient characteristics. Recent work includes an analysis of the spillovers between different types of health and social care, and quantifying the impact of waiting times targets in public hospitals. Ongoing

Rebekah Stroud has been a research economist in the industrial organisation and demand team at the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2017. Most of her research looks at how policy can be used to discourage socially harmful behaviour, with particular application to food and drink consumption and motoring vehicles. She is also one of the researchers involved in the NIHR obesity policy research which draws together researchers from a number of different disciplines with the aim of informing the design

Using experimental methods, Natalie studies the behaviour of individuals and groups in social dilemma situations, with a focus on the strategic configuration of many environmental problems. Her research considers the behaviour and motivations of the general population supporting public good provision through voluntary donations, as well as identifying critical design attributes that have the potential to promote sustainable cooperation between public good providers and the broader population.

Rebecca Stuart is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Economic Research (IRENE) at the University of Neuchâtel and Honorary Professor of Practice in Finance at the Centre for Economic History in Queen’s University Belfast. From 2004 to 2020 she worked at the Central Bank of Ireland, first as an economist in the Financial Stability Division before becoming a Monetary Policy Advisor in 2012.