Lei Xu is an Economist at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. His research interests include labour economics, economics of education, and applied micro-econometrics. He has past and ongoing works on the returns to apprenticeship from both the perspective of apprentice and firm, minimum wage, returns to university graduate, housing prices in China. He currently has strong interests on the topics of productivity, digitalization, career development and wage structure.
National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR)
Lei Xu
Tony Yates
Tony is an independent economist. He was formerly a Professor of Economics at Birmingham University and before that Senior Advisor on Monetary Policy at the Bank of England. He has written recently for the Guardian, New Statesman, Independent and others.
Bank of England & University of Warwick
Ivan Yotzov
Ivan Yotzov is an Economist at the Bank of England. He is working in the Structural Economics Division, part of the Monetary Analysis Directorate. Ivan has an MPhil in Economic Research from the University of Cambridge and is completing his PhD at the University of Warwick. His research interests include macroeconomics, political economy, and text analysis.
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
Garry Young
Garry Young is one of two Deputy Directors at NIESR. His research interests cover all aspects of applied macroeconomics and policy. He re-joined NIESR in September 2017 following 17 years working on monetary policy and financial stability at the Bank of England.
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Jake Young
Jake joined the CIPD in 2018, having completed a Master’s degree in social science research methods at the University of Nottingham. He also holds an undergraduate degree in criminology and sociology. Jake leads on the Good Work Index, the CIPD’s annual benchmark of job quality in the UK. Jake has also contributed to many Evidence Reviews, providing a critical and evidence-based view on many different organisational areas, including employee engagement, digital work and mental wellbeing, and
University of the West of England Bristol
Tom Youngman
Tom is Research Fellow in Sustainable Food Economics at the University of the West of England. He works with the UKRI Agrifood for Net Zero Network+: agrifood4netzero.net and is part of a team developing a participatory model of the future of the UK food and land system. Tom is a doctoral researcher at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the University of Oxford, and researches how agent-based macroeconomic models can be used to assess the distributional impact of climate mitigation
