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University of Liverpool Management School

David Forrest

David works on sport and gambling. He has highly cited papers in sports economics on topics such as audience demand, managerial change, referee bias and player labour markets. He is active in anti-match fixing, working with unions, police, regulators and UEFA. His first gambling research was on lotteries but latterly he has published several studies of individual behaviour related to problem gambling. He is a member of the Advisory Board for Safer Gambling.

Heriot-Watt University

Rachel Forshaw

Rachel Forshaw is Assistant Professor of Economics at the Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University. Working with Heriot-Watt’s Centre for Energy Economics Research and Policy, she contributes to BP’s Statistical Review of World Energy and Energy Outlook publications. Rachel’s main research interests lie in applied econometrics and data science with a focus on labour markets and inequality.

The Data City

Tom Forth

Tom Forth is co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) at TheDataCity.com. He is also Head of Data at ODILeeds and founder of imactivate – a data and software consultancy.

Harvard University

Jeffrey Frankel

Jeffrey Frankel is James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). His research interests include currencies, crises, commodities, international finance, international trade, monetary and fiscal policy, and global environmental issues. He co-directs the NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics and Harvard’s conference on Politics and Economics of

The Economist

James Fransham

James Fransham is data correspondent for The Economist Newspaper in London. As well as writing for the newspaper’s Graphic Detail section he is also a regular contributor to the newspaper’s Britain section—he writes a weekly “data dispatch” for its newsletter, Blighty. He has produced original quantitative stories for many of the newspaper’s sections and been shortlisted for several journalistic awards. He joined The Economist as a researcher in 2009 and in 2014 was made the

QUB

Declan French

I have 22 publications in peer-reviewed journals on aspects of finance, economics and health. I have developed collaborative interdisciplinary research and have been successful in nine grant proposals. Current research projects include Work disability and the legacy of the Northern Irish Troubles ; Cost effectiveness of stratified medicine approaches to colorectal cancer and Time discounting as a mediator of the relationship between financial stress and health.