Experts

David Heald is Emeritus Professor at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. His research focuses on: fiscal transparency; public sector accounting reform; public expenditure management and control; public audit; and financing devolved governments. David is a member of the UK Treasury’s User and Preparer Advisory Group on government financial reporting and a member of the Scottish Government’s Advisory Group on Tax Strategy. In 2023 he chaired a working group of the Royal Society

Dr. Margaret Heffernan produced programmes for the BBC for 13 years.  She then moved to the US where she spearheaded multimedia productions for Intuit, The Learning Company and Standard&Poors. She was Chief Executive of InfoMation Corporation, ZineZone Corporation and then iCast Corporation, was named one of the “Top 25” by Streaming Media magazine and one of the “Top 100 Media Executives” by The Hollywood Reporter. The author of six books, Margaret’s third book, Willful Blindness :

John F. Helliwell is Professor Emeritus in the Vancouver School of Economics at the University of British Columbia, and Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. He has been an editor of all ten editions of the World Happiness Report. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and Officer of the Order of Canada.

Kathleen leads Resolution Foundation’s research on post-16 skills, training and education. She also works on issues related to youth employment and disadvantaged groups in the labour market. Prior to joining Resolution Foundation, Kathleen worked at Universities UK, where she focused on graduate employment outcomes and learning and teaching policy. She has a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics.

Erin is an economist with research interests in applied micro economic theory and gender economics. She is a member of the Royal Economic Society Women’s Committee and has a PhD in economics from the University of Cambridge.

Andrew Henley is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Economics at Cardiff Business School, Cardiff University. He has published extensively on labour economics, regional economics and on small business and entrepreneurship, He is a member of the project teams for both the ESRC Productivity Insights Network and the ESRC Productivity Institute, as well as co-investigator on a current ESRC project on the impact of COVID on self-employment. He has a long and extensive record of policy and business