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London School of Economics and Political Science

Lucinda Platt

Lucinda Platt is a quantitative sociologist whose work focuses on child poverty, ethnicity, migration and child and adult disability. She is a panel member of the IFS Deaton Review of Inequality and is President of the European Academy of Sociology.

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Alexander Plekhanov

Alexander Plekhanov is Director, Transition Impact and Global Economics, at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London. He edits EBRD’s annual economic report, Transition Report, and the Regional Economic Prospects. His responsibilities also include trade policy and analysis of development impact of EBRD projects. Prior to 2007, he worked at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC.  Alexander holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

Institute for Government

Thomas Pope

Thomas Pope is deputy chief economist at the Institute for Government. He works across the Institute’s programme areas. He was previously an economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, working on tax and the public finances. He has an MSC in economics from UCL and a BA in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford.

King’s College London and UK in a Changing Europe

Jonathan Portes

Jonathan Portes was Chief Economist at the Cabinet Office from 2008 to 2011, where he led economic analysis during the financial crisis and the G20 London Summit. From 2011 to 2015, he was Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. His research concentrates on immigration and labour mobility and the economic implications of Brexit. Other research interests include labour markets, fiscal policy, social security, and the use of evaluation and evidence.

McGill University

Markus Poschke

Markus Poschke is an Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Economics at McGill University, Montreal, where he has been working since 2007. In 2018, he received the Bank of Canada’s Governor’s Award. His main research interests are in macroeconomics broadly, in particular inequality, taxation, growth theory, firm dynamics, entrepreneurship, structural change, and the macroeconomics of labour markets.

UCL, IFS

Fabien Postel-Vinay

Fabien Postel-Vinay is a professor of economics at University College London and a Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is also an IZA Research Fellow, a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics and a founding member of the European Search and Matching (SaM) network. He received his Ph.D. in economics at Université de Paris I in 1998. His research fields are applied and theoretical labour economics, labour market policy and economic dynamics. The focus of most of his recent