Tom joined the IFS in 2016 and works in the Income, Work and Welfare sector. His work includes labour economics, tax and benefit policy, inequality, and poverty. Before joining IFS he worked at the Office for Budget Responsibility and HM Treasury.
Institute for Fiscal Studies
Tom Waters
Greater London Authority
James Watson
James Watson is a macroeconomist working at the Greater London Authority. He specialises in macroeconomic modelling and forecasting, with an interest in combining these techniques with insights from other disciplines. James has forecasting experience in emerging markets, the US and Europe along with regional analysis in the UK.
Fraser of Allander Institute, Strathclyde University
Rob Watts
Rob Watts is a Knowledge Exchange Associate at Strathclyde University’s Fraser of Allander Institute. He has expertise in analysing anti-poverty policies, human rights budgeting and the implications of economic policy for people with learning disabilities and family carers.
Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge
Julia Wdowin
Julia Wdowin is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. She works on research at the interface of economic welfare, measurement issues, complexity, economics and ethics. Her PhD study focuses on conceptualising tools for measurement of wealth and individual well-being, holistically understood.
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Michael Weber
Michael Weber is an Associate Professor of Finance at Chicago Booth. He is also a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in the Monetary Economics and Asset Pricing groups, a member of the Macro Finance Society, and a research affiliate at the CESifo Research Network. His research interests include asset pricing, macroeconomics, international finance, and household finance.
University of Manchester
Andy Westwood
Andy Westwood is Professor of Government Practice at the University of Manchester. An expert in further and higher education, science policy and local/regional economic development and has worked regularly as an adviser for the OECD, IMF and the EU and the House of Lords select committee on Economic Affairs and Digital Skills. He has also worked in the UK government as a political and special adviser and civil servant in a variety of departments. He is a Co-Investigator at The Productivity Institute.
