Experts

Chris Giles is the FT’s economics commentator. He writes a fortnightly column and the weekly newsletter, Chris Giles on Central Banks. Previously, he was economics editor and served as a leader writer. He is an Honorary Professor of Practice at the UCL Policy Lab. Before joining the FT, he worked for the BBC, Ofcom and the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Chris loves numbers.

Ludovica Giua is Research Economist at the Competence Centre on Microeconomic Evaluation at the Joint Research Center of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy, and Visiting Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Essex, UK. Her research focuses on applied microeconomics and policy evaluation in the area of labour economics, migration and welfare.

Paola Giuliano is a Professor of Economics at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and holds the Justice Elwood Lui Endowed Term Chair in Management. She serves as a co-editor of the Journal of the European Economic Association. She is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the Institute for the Study of Labor. Giuliano’s main areas of research are culture and economics and political economy.

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.