Experts

Gabriel Ahlfeldt is a quantitative spatial economist. His primary field is urban economics, but his research cuts across many fields such as environment, finance, labour, political economy, and real estate. He is Professor of Econometrics at Humboldt University in Berlin, a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, faculty of the Berlin School of Economics, a research fellow at IAB, and an affiliate of the Centre for Economic Performance, CESifo, and CEPR.

Firoz Ahmed is currently Associate Professor at the Economics Discipline at Khulna University in Bangladesh. His research interests are primarily in the areas of applied microeconomics, development economics, and behavioural economics. His recent research focuses on health, agriculture, migration, environment, and disaster management. He has published in several international journals including Food Policy, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, and Migration and Development.

David is the Director at NIESR and joined in July 2025.  He was previously Professor (in Practice) of Finance at King’s Business School and the inaugural Director of the Qatar Centre for Global Banking and Finance.  He co-founded the Bank of England Watchers’ conference (together with Richard Barwell) and launched the Macroprudential Matters blog.  David is a member of the Bank of England’s Macroprudential Roundtable and, until July 2025, served on the Prudential Regulation Authority’s

Andrew is a Senior Economist at NIESR and a research associate at ESCoE. He holds a PhD in Economics from Royal Holloway, University of London. He has expertise in the area of labour economics including migration, minimum wages, urban economics and inequality. Current work includes analysing how firms respond to increases in minimum wages, and the development of democratic measures of household and national income.

Dr Zoe Aitken is a senior research fellow at the University of Melbourne. She is an epidemiologist leading a programme of research on reducing mental health inequalities experienced by people with disability. Her research involves the application of causal models for understanding health inequalities, with an aim to identify modifiable social determinants of health that could reduce existing mental health inequalities.

Cevat Giray Aksoy is an Associate Director of Research at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London, Assistant Professor of Economics at King’s College London, Department of Political Economy, an invited researcher of the J-PAL Humanitarian Initiative, and Research Associate at IZA Institute of Labor Economics. He is also a co-founder of Global Survey of Working Arrangements (G-SWA), which collects detailed information on workers’ experiences and attitudes regarding remote