Experts

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

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.