Experts

Amanda Hill-Dixon is a Senior Research Fellow and Programme Director at the Wales Centre for Public Policy. Amanda leads WCPP’s inequalities priority area, their work with public services more broadly, and WCPP’s work on socio-economic inequalities as part of the International Public Policy Observatory. Her role involves developing and leading research and knowledge mobilisation to generate useful and impactful evidence for Welsh policy-makers and public service leaders. 

Nick Hillman has been the Director of HEPI since 2014. He worked for the Rt Hon David Willetts MP (now Lord Willetts), the Minister for Universities and Science, from 2007 until the end of 2013, as Chief of Staff and then Special Adviser in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. Previously, he was a History teacher and worked at the Association of British Insurers. At the 2010 general election, he was the runner-up in Cambridge.

Thomas Hills is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Warwick and Director of the MSc in Behavioural and Data Science.  His research uses big data, network science, and natural language processing to make inferences about the structure of memory over the lifetime and culture over generations.

Randi Hjalmarsson is a Professor of Economics at the University of Gothenburg, currently runing the PhD programme. Randi is a labor economist, and has conducted extensive research on the economics of crime and the criminal justice system. 

Geoffrey M Hodgson is Emeritus Professor in Management at Loughborough University London. His research is on institutional and evolutionary economics, economic methodology and economic history. He has published 158 articles in academic journals. His recent books include Liberal Solidarity (2021), Is Socialism Feasible? (2019), Is there a Future for Heterodox Economics? (2019), Conceptualizing Capitalism (2015), and From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities (2013). He is editor in chief

Andreas is a Financial Data Scientist working towards the vision of a Conflict-Free Capitalism. He is Full Professor of Operational Risk, Banking & Finance at the Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School & Lochlann Quinn School of Business of University College Dublin (UCD) and a supervisor for UCD’s SFI Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning. He is serving on the EU’s Platform on Sustainable Finance as one of five independent members with a focus on data availability and data