Experts

Ahmet is a Principal Economist at NIESR. He holds an MSc from the University of Groningen and a PhD from Hacettepe University. Before joining NIESR, Ahmet worked as an economist at the British Embassy in Turkey and the Turkish Treasury. He also held research roles at the Groningen Growth and Development Centre (GGDC) and UNU-WIDER. Ahmet’s research focuses on international trade and finance, capital flows, structural transformation, and productivity growth in developing countries.

Michael Keating is Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Aberdeen. He has published extensively on regionalism, European integration, urban studies, nationalism  and decentralisation.

Elaine is the Head of Economics Research in the REAL Centre at the Health Foundation and a senior research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She is also a Deputy Director of the NIHR Health and Social Care Workforce Policy Research Unit. Her research focuses on various aspects of health and social care, including variation in healthcare use across time, space and different patient characteristics, end of life care, the nurse labour market and the low paid health and care

Roger Kelly is the Lead Regional Economist covering Türkiye and Russia in the Policy, Strategy and Delivery Department of the EBRD. Prior to taking up this role, he spent 15 years working as a Senior Banker and Economist at the European Investment Bank. He has also worked as an Economist and Adviser to the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England. He has a PhD from the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester and is an Academic Visitor at St. Antony’s College, University

Alexander G. Kemp is Professor of Petroleum Economics at the University of Aberdeen. He has published over 200 papers and books. In 2006, he was awarded the OBE. In June 2011, Professor Kemp was appointed to the Scottish Government’s Energy Advisory Board. He authored The Official History of North Sea Oil and Gas, published in 2012. In 2012 he received the SPE Lifetime Achievement Award and in 2022, he was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah International

Francis Kennedy worked for 25 years in debt capital markets in the City of London, before completing an MSc and PhD in economic history at the London School of Economics. Most recently, he has worked for Queen’s University, Belfast on an ESRC grant-funded project, The Sterling Area Revisited. De Bromhead et al, 2022 is a recent output from this study.