Experts

Osea Giuntella is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds a PhD in Economics from Boston University. Before joining the University of Pittsburgh he was a post-doc at the University of Oxford. He is also a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Dr. Giuntella is a labour and health economist with expertise in economic demography, the economics of risky health behaviours, and the economics of immigration.

Giulia Giupponi is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She will join Bocconi University as Assistant Professor in 2020. She earned a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2019. She has worked on the employment and welfare effects of social insurance programs, the impact of minimum wages on firm behaviour and the wage structure, the rise of alternative work arrangements, and inequalities in the labour market.

Satyam Goel is a doctoral researcher in economics at the University of Liverpool with research interests in macroeconomics, monetary policy, housing markets, and financial stability. He has contributed to research projects involving the UK, Australian, and Canadian economies and housing markets. Satyam holds an M.Res. degree in Economics from Bristol University, an M.Sc. in Financial Economics from Glasgow University, and an undergraduate honours degree in Economics from Delhi University.

Aditya Goenka, Chair in Economics, University of Birmingham, is a pioneer in studying interaction of epidemiology and dynamic general equilibrium models. His other work is on business cycles (sunspots and chaos), growth theory, pollution, and financial crises. He is co-editing a special issue in Journal of Mathematical Economics on economics of epidemics and infectious diseases. He has taught in Mexico, Singapore, UK, USA and Vietnam.

Benjamin Goodair is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the privatisation of health and social care services. Ben’s thesis evaluates NHS privatisation in England since 2010, detailing the scale of for-profit delivery of healthcare and the impacts on health outcomes. Ben’s broader research interests include social care provision, health policy and quantitative methods.

Dr Jane Goodall DBE is one of the world’s leading environmentalists and founder of the Jane Goodall Institute. She is also a United Nations Messenger of Peace.