Experts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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