Experts

Douglas Cumming, J.D., Ph.D., CFA, is the DeSantis Distinguished Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, and a Visiting Professor of Finance at Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham. Douglas has published over 230 articles in leading refereed academic journals (including 44 in Financial Times top 50 journals) in finance, management, and law and economics.  Douglas’ work has been cited over 28,000 times according to

Neil Cummins is Associate Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics. His research themes are life, love and death. His methods combine economic logic and historical sources with big data analytics. His research papers are available at neilcummins.com.

Janet Currie is the Henry Putnam Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and the Co-director of Princeton’s Center for Health and Wellbeing. She also co-directs the Program on Families and Children at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Currie is a pioneer in the economic analysis of child development. Her current research focuses on socioeconomic differences in health and access to health care, environmental threats to health, the important role of mental

Ruth is the Chief Executive of the Resolution Foundation. She was previously Director of fiscal policy at HM Treasury (HMT) where she worked for over 15 years. Her career has focused on domestic economic policy including labour markets, tax, fiscal policy and financial regulation. Ruth has held a wide range of roles in HMT, including working in the Chancellor’s private office, supporting the Independent Commission on Banking, and leading the Treasury’s distributional analysis.

Alessio D’Angelo is Associate Professor at the University of Nottingham, where he leads the International Centre for Public and Social Policy (icPSP). He has extensive experience in conducting research on migration, social inequalities and access to public services, with a particular focus on education and the role of Third Sector organisations. His inter-disciplinary work includes quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods analysis and often employs international comparative perspectives.

Jón Danielsson is one of the two Directors of the Centre and Reader in Finance at the LSE. Since receiving his PhD in the economics of financial markets from Duke University in 1991, Jón’s work has focused on how economic policy can lead to prosperity or disaster. He is an authority on both the technical aspects of risk forecasting and the optimal policies that governments and regulators should pursue in this area. Jón has written three highly regarded books: The Illusion of Control (Yale