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.
University of Southern California, USA. Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
Hashem Pesaran
Queen Mary University of London
Barbara Petrongolo
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.
University of the West of England Bristol
Van Phan
Van joined UWE in 2020, working in the Wage and Employment Dynamics project. She has previously held roles as Lecturer in Economics and Accountant in Vietnam, and Teaching Assistant at University of Bath, UK. She undertook her BSc in Banking and Finance, and MA in Development Economics in Vietnamese universities before completing a PhD in Economics at University of Bath, UK. She is working on topics of gender differences in human capital, and in the labour market. She is also interested in
Athens University
Apostolis Philippopoulos
Apostolis Philippopoulos is professor emeritus at the Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business. He holds a PhD from Birkbeck College, London. He taught at the University of Essex (1989-1996) before moving to Athens. He is a research fellow at CESifo Munich and the Hellenic Observatory at the LSE. He currently serves as a member of the Hellenic Fiscal Council. He has published more than sixty research papers on macroeconomic theory and policy.
IFS
David Phillips
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 crisis.
University of Glasgow
Jim Phillips
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 in
