Experts

Ben Fine is Emeritus Professor of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He chairs the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (iippe.org). He has published many articles, and two books scathingly criticizing the use of social capital: ‘Social Capital versus Social Theory: Political Economy and Social Science at the Turn of the Millennium’, London: Routledge, 2001; and ‘Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly’,

John FitzGerald is an honorary fellow and adjunct professor of economics at Trinity College Dublin, a Research Affiliate at the Economic and Social Research Institute, and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He was Chairman of the Irish government’s Climate Change Advisory Council until January 2021 and he remains a member today. He is a former member of the Commission of the Central Bank of Ireland and of the Northern Ireland Authority for Energy Regulation. His areas of expertise cover the

Alongside her academic role, Amelia Fletcher is a Non-Executive Director of the Competition and Markets Authority and a member of Ofgem’s Enforcement Decision Panel. She has been on the Boards of the FCA and PSR and was Chief Economist at the OFT. In 2019, she was a member of the HM Treasury-commissioned Digital Competition Expert Panel. Her academic work focuses on competition policy, consumer policy and sector regulation, with a particular focus on behavioural economics and digital markets.

Philip T. Fliers (PhD, Erasmus Rotterdam) is Senior Lecturer in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast. His research interests are corporate finance and corporate governance. His research addresses issues in British and Dutch economic and financial history. He studies the evolution of corporate decision making using a combination of financial data and archival evidence. Additionally, his research answers contemporary questions on dividend stability, investments and capital structure.

Rebecca leads the Work Foundation’s research programme on insecure work. She has expertise in precarity, social mobility and working conditions and applies cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis to important research and policy questions. Alongside her role at the Work Foundation, she is a PhD candidate at Queen Mary, University of London, conducting a study on the impact of precarious work on life course employment trajectories. Previously, she worked at Eurofound in Dublin.

Dr Helena Fornwagner is a passionate Behavioural Economist at the University of Exeter. She conducts economic experiments to examine how (monetary) incentives impact individual behaviour. Her research generally focuses on the influence of gender and biological determinants, like one’s sex, on economic decision-making. She is experienced in communicating with non-academics and is committed to sharing scientific findings with the general public, which is integral to her professional mission.