Experts

Helen is a Research Officer at the London School of Economics, where she has contributed to research on tax policy, inequality, migration, including the work of the UK Wealth Tax Commission. Previously, she worked for five years at the Reserve Bank of Australia on labour market and international developments, and co-authored working papers on household responses to monetary policy and the market for overnight cash in Australia. Helen has an MSc Economics from University College London.

Charles Hulme is Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Oxford. His research interests span reading, language and memory processes and their development and is an expert on randomized controlled trials in Education. His work on reading development has made important contributions to understanding the role of phonological skills in learning to read. He has also worked to develop early language intervention programmes for young children.

John Eric Humphries is an assistant professor of economics at Yale University. His research focuses on topics in labor economics and applied microeconomics. In particular, he studies education, career dynamics, and self-employment. Much of his work considers how policies affect the acquisition of human capital and labor market dynamics. His publications include work on the GED high school equivalency exam, information frictions for small businesses, and the estimation of dynamic treatment effects.

Wolf-Fabian Hungerland is an economist at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs. He also is a research fellow at the Institute of Economic History of Humboldt-University of Berlin and teaches at Stanford University s campus in Berlin. His research interests are international economics, EU policy, economic history and data science.His PhD in economics from Humboldt-University of Berlin was awarded with the Gerhard-Frst-Preis of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany in 2018.

Tehreem Husain is the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Prior to this, she was the Economic History Society Power Fellow in Economic History in affiliation with the Institute of Historical Research and a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Department of Economic History. Tehreem completed her PhD in historical infrastructure finance at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction, University College London in December

Leonardo Iacovone is Lead Economist at the World Bank and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Hertie School. His area of research expertise include development economics, business dynamics, productivity, entrepreneurship, innovation, trade and youth unemployment, with a special focus on policy evaluation. His research has been published in numerous renowned journals such as Science, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Economics, World Development, etc