Maria is a Research Officer at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Research Associate at the Wellbeing Research Centre based at Oxford University. She is a Labour Economist who works predominantly in policy evaluation. Her research focuses on wellbeing, inequality, the effects of deprivation and of poor economic experiences, and the well-functioning of labour markets.
Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Maria Cotofan
Bennett Institute for Public Policy
Steph Coulter
Steph Coulter is a Research Assistant working across various aspects of the Bennett Institute ‘place’ programme. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with an MPhil in Politics and International Studies. He also holds a degree in International Relations from the University of St Andrews. His primary research interests are the rise of radical right populism, social democratic political theory and social class dynamics in 21st century Britain.
University of Bristol
Andre Couture
Andre is a second year Maths and Economics Undergraduate student at the University of Bristol.
George Mason University
Tyler Cowen
Tyler Cowen is a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, and a long-time writer on the economics of the arts. His main book on arts policy is *Good & Plenty: The Creative Successes of American Arts Funding*
Oxford Brookes Business School
Marc Cowling
Professor Marc Cowling has a PhD in Business Economics from Warwick Business School and an MSc Economics from London University. He is currently ranked in the top 5% of economists in the world by citations (H-index) according to Research Publications in Economics (REPEC, February 2024) and in the top 2% of research scientists by Stanford University. He has been an active researcher for 35 years and focuses on small business survival and growth and how public policy can support these objectives.
University of Cambridge
Diane Coyle
Diane Coyle is Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She specialises in the economics of new technologies, markets and competition, and measurement of the digital economy. As co-director of the Bennett Institute at the University of Cambridge, she leads research programmes on comprehensive wealth and economic well-being. Diane is a Fellow of the Office for National Statistics and has held a number of public service roles. She was awarded the CBE for her contribution to
