Experts

Hashem Pesaran is the John Elliott Distinguished Chair in Economics at University of Southern California, an Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cambridge University, and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. His research covers national and global macro-econometric modelling, analysis of panel data models with cross-sectional dependence, and the Iranian economy.

Barbara Petrongolo is Lord Maurice Peston Professor of Economics at Queen Mary University, Director of the CEPR Labour Economics Programme and Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. She is currently managing co-editor of the Economic Journal. Her primary research interests are in labour economics. Her work also researches the causes of gender inequalities in labour market outcomes, in a historical perspective and across countries.

David, an Associate Director at the IFS, has particular expertise in two areas. Firstly, devolved and local government finance, where he has analysed fiscal rules, funding allocations and local risks in the context of Covid-19. Secondly, tax and social protection policy in developing countries, where he helps lead the DfID-funded TaxDev programme, which has been supporting partner governments’ policy development and appraisal and publishing broader research and analysis on the Covid-19

Jim Phillips is a leading authority on deindustrialisation in Scotland. He has pioneered the use of a moral economy framework for explaining the social and political results of lost employment in industrial sectors since the 1950s. Deindustrialisation was broadly accepted as fair in Scotland in the 1960s and 1970s because the security of workers and communities affected was protected by Labour governments at UK level. Employment alternatives were stimulated. Conservative governments at UK level

Jeremy Phillipson is a Professor of Rural Development at the Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, and Director of the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE). He has research interests on the development needs of rural economies and fishing communities, processes of expertise exchange within rural land management and the integration of social and natural sciences in resource management. He was Assistant Director of the UK Research Council’s Rural Economy and Land

Angus is a research economist at the IFS working within the Human Capital Development sector. His work focuses on inequalities in child development and families as well as the effect of early intervention programs on child development.