Experts

W. Walker Hanlon is an Associate Professor in the Economics Department at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding how economies evolve over the long-run using novel historical data. He is particularly interested in questions related to technological progress, urbanization, demography, international trade, and the environment. Before joining Northwestern, Professor Hanlon spent four years working at NYU’s Stern School of Business, one year as a Kenen Fellow at Princeton

Alan Hanna is a Reader in Finance at Queen’s University Belfast. Having previously worked in financial technology roles, his research interests include the application of algorithms and computational techniques to problems in finance and related fields. Recent projects include applying text analytics to a digitised archive of Financial Times articles and topic analysis of historical patents.

Stephen Hansen is Associate Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School. He has served as an academic consultant to the Bank of England, and has recently held fellowships at the Hoover Institute and Alan Turing Institute.  He is currently a Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and CESifo, where he also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board.  Areas of expertise include financial transaction data, machine learning, natural language processing.

Tim Harcourt is Industry Professor and Chief Economist at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS), host of The Airport Economist TV series and The Airport Economist TV channel, and author of eight books including The Airport Economist and his latest book Footynomics and the Business of Sport.

Susan Harkness is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Centre for Poverty and Social Justice at the University of Bristol. She is co-Investigator of the ESRC research centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC), where she leads the research programme on ‘Changing family life-courses and inequalities.’ Her research focusses on how gender and family structure relate to inequality and poverty. She has particular interests in maternal employment and single parents’ socio-economic circumstances.

Richard’s main research is on firm-level productivity, including its determinants (e.g., trade, investment, and innovation). As well as publishing widely in journals on the topic, he has undertaken extensive policy work for bodies like UKTI, UK regional governments, and the North East and Tees Valley LEPs. He is also a research associate of the New Zealand Productivity Commission.