Experts

Becky Allen is a Professor of Education at the University of Brighton and Chief Analyst at Teacher Tapp, the largest teacher survey in the UK. An economist by training, she is interested in how schools respond to changes in education policy and has written extensively on school performance, accountability, admissions and expenditure. As an expert in the analysis of large-scale administrative and survey datasets, she now spends most of her research time studying teacher careers and working practices.

Tiziana Alocci works where data, art, and technology converge. Her work captures the unseen and intangible phenomenas through data, city soundscapes, biometric inputs, scents, archives, and personal narratives. Her approach is both analytical and poetic, reflecting a biographical journey that makes the invisible visible. Her practice is defined as ‘behavioural cartography’ – visually mapping the minutiae of how people live today. Alocci’s work converts recorded data into pictorial and

Juan-Carlos Altamirano is a Senior Economist at the Economics Center, World Resources Institute. He focuses on economic analysis and modelling for the Climate and Energy Global Initiatives at WRI. Juan-Carlos is an Economist from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico. He also holds a MSc. on Environmental and Natural Resources Economics from University College London and a PhD. on Climate Change Economics from Wageningen University, The Netherlands.

Carolina Alves is a Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics at the University of Cambridge, Girton College, who specialises in international macro-finance, development, political economy of money and finance, and issues of decolonisation in economics. She also has a wider interest in the methodology of economics, including ethics and moral economy. Carolina is the co-founder of initiative  Diversifying and Decolonising Economics and co-editor of The Developing Economics blog.

Sofia is an Economist at the South Asia Region Gender Innovation Lab at the World Bank. Previously, she was an Economist at the ifo Institute and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, leading a research group on the Economics of Violence Against Women. Her work spans violence, women’s mobility, gender, and development in India, UK, El Salvador, Mozambique, Colombia, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. She is a CESifo Research Affiliate and linked to the University of Birmingham’s Crime and Policing

Lena Anayi is an Economist at the Bank of England. She works in the Structural Economics Division within the Bank’s Monetary Analysis Directorate, where she is involved in corporate sector analysis. As part of this, she is involved in the day-to-day running of the Decision Maker Panel (DMP) survey of UK businesses, as well as research, analysis and dissemination of results to the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee. Lena holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford.