Experts

Susan has over 20 years experience working in market and social research in both Edinburgh and London. Through this she has helped provide insight to a number of charities on the local, national and international level. Since 2016 she has been the Head of Research at the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) where she is on the senior leadership team. In this role she is responsible for CAF’s research outputs which help inform the charity world and beyond. Susan has been a trustee of The Hospice in The Weald since 2017.

Lucinda Platt is Professor of Social Policy at the LSE. A quantitative sociologist, her research focuses on inequalities, particularly those relating to ethnicity, migration, gender and disability. She has published widely on these topics. Lucinda is Associate Editor of the European Sociological Review, co-investigator of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study, and a panel member of the IFS Deaton Inequality Review.

Jonathan Portes was Chief Economist at the Cabinet Office from 2008 to 2011, where he led economic analysis during the financial crisis and the G20 London Summit. From 2011 to 2015, he was Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. His research concentrates on immigration and labour mobility and the economic implications of Brexit. Other research interests include labour markets, fiscal policy, social security, and the use of evaluation and evidence.

Markus Poschke is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Economics at McGill University, Montreal, where he has been working since 2007. In 2018, he received the Bank of Canada’s Governor’s Award. His main research interests are in macroeconomics broadly, in particular inequality, taxation, growth theory, firm dynamics, entrepreneurship, structural change, and the macroeconomics of labour markets.

Fabien Postel-Vinay is a professor of economics at University College London and a Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is also an IZA Research Fellow, a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics and a founding member of the European Search and Matching (SaM) network. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Université de Paris I in 1998.

His research fields are applied and theoretical labor economics, labor market policy and economic dynamics. The focus of most of his recent contributions is on the economics and econometrics of job search models.

Natacha Postel-Vinay is an economic and financial historian. Her research explores international finance, money and banking from a historical perspective, with a special focus on banking and fiscal crises. She is an expert in the history of the Great Depression. Her research also examines financial crisis resolution and the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy, public finance and national debt. She teaches monetary and financial history from 1600 to the 21C and is a CEPR Research Affiliate.