Experts

Sharon Collard is a Professor of Personal Finance and Co-Director of the Personal Finance Research Centre at the University of Bristol. Her research explores the intersections between vulnerability and personal finance including the role of innovation in improving the experiences and outcomes of individuals in vulnerable situations. Her main areas of expertise include financial wellbeing and capability, consumer vulnerability, financial inclusion, consumer credit use and problem debt, and gambling

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Director of the International Growth Centre, and the ESRC research network, Social Macroeconomics. His research covers the transformation from poverty to prosperity; state fragility; the implications of group psychology for development; migration and refugees; urbanization in poor countries and the crisis in modern capitalism, which is the subject of his most recent book, The Future

James Collis is a public policy economist. He serves as the Deputy Director of the LSE Growth Lab and as a Visiting Fellow at the LSE School of Public Policy. Prior to joining the LSE, James spent over 15 years undertaking economic policy analysis in government and consulting. His work includes analysis of economic growth, fiscal and environmental policies. James’ time in the UK Government Economics Service includes roles in the Cabinet Office, the Department for Environment Food and Rural

Jonathan is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia’s Department of Economics and Director of the Environmental Inequality Lab. He combines data with insights from economic theory and environmental science to understand how economic activity and the natural environment influence one another.

Chris Colvin is Reader in Economic History at Queen’s University Belfast, where he is a director of the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH). He has written extensively on the interwar economy and specialises in the causes, anatomy and consequences of historical financial crises. He is also interested in measuring the long-run consequences of health crises and has worked on quantifying the demographic impact of the Great Irish Famine and the 1918 influenza pandemic.

I have a broad spectrum of interests across applied economics, but especially in environmental and energy economics, trade, inequality and macroeconomics. Amongst other projects, I have worked on the link between state size and productivity using trade models, the problem of optimal climate change policy using models with credit frictions, and I have studied inequality using microsimulation models. The common theme to my work is studying and trying to inform long term policy issues.