Experts

Dan Anderberg’s research interests are in family economics and public policy. In the family area his research focuses on marriage choices, divorce, domestic violence, and vulnerable children. In public policy he also works on education choices, expectations and behaviour. He is Research Associate at the IFS and Distinguished Affiliate at CESifo.

Jake Anders is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the UCL Centre for Education Policy & Equalising Opportunities (CEPEO), University College London. Jake’s research focuses on better understanding the causes and consequences of educational inequalities, evaluating policies and programmes aiming to reduce these inequalities, and how best to do this evaluation. He is also Principal Investigator of the COVID Social Mobility & Opportunities study (COSMO), a major cohort study of young people across England building our understanding of the unequal implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on the life chances of a generation. Jake has published widely across economics, psychology and sociology journals on these issues.

Nicola is the CEO of FinTech Scotland. She has years of experience in financial services regulation where her focus was on conduct regulation and supporting the delivery of good consumer outcomes in retail markets. She worked for the FCA across a range of financial sectors with experience supervising firms such as Retail Banks, Credit Unions, Building Societies and smaller Intermediaries.

Alison is a Senior Research Economist at the IFS. Her work focuses on family economics, gender and education both in the UK and in India.

Alin Andries is Professor of Finance and Banking at Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi and Research fellow of Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romanian Academy. Previously, he was a Go8 Research Fellow at University of New South Wales and a SCIEX Research Fellow at University of St. Gallen. His research interests are focused on financial intermediation, bank performance, households finance, corporate governance and empirical finance.

Barbara Annicchiarico is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic and International Studies (CEIS). Her main research interests fall in the areas of environmental macroeconomics, growth and business cycle, fiscal and monetary policy, and macroeconomic modelling for policy analysis.