Experts

Anthony Savagar is a senior lecturer in economics at the University of Kent. His research focuses on macroeconomics, industrial organization and productivity.

Liz Sayce is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the London School of Economics. She was Chief Executive of Disability Rights UK (and its legacy charity Radar) from 2007-2017, where she led work for equal participation for all, through programmes on independent living, career opportunities and shifts in cultural attitudes and behaviour. Liz is Chair of the Commission for Equality in Mental Health, hosted by the Centre for Mental Health, and a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee.

Rachel is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the economics of non-standard working, including zero-hours contracts and part-time work. She is also interested in the application of labour economics to sports data. She was previously an economic consultant, preparing damages calculations and business valuations for international arbitrations and disputes in the UK courts. She worked across a range of industries, including healthcare, energy and financial services.

Kimberley Scharf is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Head of the Economics Department at the University of Birmingham. Her research interests span several subfields of economics, including political economy, public finance, international trade and finance, and industrial organisation. It also reaches out to other disciplines – e.g., marketing and decision sciences. Her research has been published in leading peer-reviewed journals and has been funded by the ESRC, the Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada, the British Academy, the European Research Council, HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs.

Fabiola is a doctoral researcher at the UCD Michael Smurfit Business Graduate School in Dublin. Her research interests include emission reporting, energy finance and the influence of environmental, social and governance factors on corporate finance. She is a Sherpa to the European Commission’s Platform on Sustainable Finance and has consulted on the EU’s Ecolabel. Fabiola is part of the ClimateDisclosure100 initiative seeking to address the challenge of incomplete corporate emission reporting.

Andrew J Scott is Professor of Economics at London Business School, Research Fellow at CEPR and consulting scholar at Stanford University’s Center on Longevity. He previously held positions at Oxford University, London School of Economics and Harvard.

His research focuses on longevity/ageing society and fiscal policy/debt management. He was a Non-Executive Director for the Financial Services Authority 2009-2013 and serves on the advisory board of the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility.