Experts

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

Chris Dann is a pre-doctoral fellow at the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the London School of Economics (LSE). His main research interests focus on the political economy of development, especially with regards to state capacity and political selection. He is currently working on an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project – PERISCOPE – researching into multi-level governance and state capacity issues vis-á-vis Covid-19.

Krishna is a PhD candidate in economics at Harvard University working on microeconomic theory as well as psychology and economics. His research focuses on social and economic networks, including diffusion processes, social learning, and network formation.

Nikhil is a researcher at the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE and a PhD candidate in Economics at UCL. He works mainly in applied microeconomics with a focus on labour markets. His current research concerns minimum wages, atypical work arrangements, labour supply and monopsony power.

Martin Daunton has written on the politics of taxation in Britain since 1799, and the political economy of public finance in OECD countries since the 1970s. He has completed a study of the economic governance of the world since 1933, and is now working on inter-generational equity.

Roubitha David is a public health consultant working in India. She recently completed a joint Msc in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from LSE and The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Her work broadly focuses on health systems and policies in developing countries and in the social determinants of health. She is also a member of the European Regional Leadership for the newly launched International Working Group for Health Systems Strengthening by Johns Hopkins University.