Experts

Melanie Jones is a Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School. Her research is in empirical labour economics and involves the quantitative analysis of large-scale secondary data. She has a particular interest in gender equality and the interaction between health and the labour market. She is committed to using this evidence to inform policy and practice, such as through the collaboration Disability@Work.

Dr Paul A Jones is Director of Research at the Centre for Community Finance Europe (CFCFE), Reader in the Social Economy at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and visiting lecturer at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague. He has over twenty-five years’ experience in academic and action research in credit union development and financial services for lower and moderate-income households including advice, in the UK and across Europe. He is the Deputy Editor of the Journal of

Richard Jones is Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation Policy at the University of Manchester. He is an experimental physicist with a focus on materials science, specialising in the properties at surfaces and interfaces, with wider interests in the social and economic consequences of nanotechnology and has contributed significantly to innovation within the higher education sector. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Calvin holds a PhD in the Economics of Tourism and Major Events. He has been involved in the development of a number of measurement tools for sustainability, including the pilot Environmental Satellite Accounts for Wales and the Tourism Environmental Satellite Account for Wales. His research interests focus on sustainable regional development, energy economics, and AI, automation and future skills. Calvin is a failed novelist, rock star and screen writer, but served a successful and rewarding (if

Professor Dylan Jones-Evans OBE is the co-founder of IDEAS which is responsible for the UK Start-Up Awards, the UK Fast Growth Index, the Great British Entrepreneur Awards and Ideas Fest. A passionate advocate for start-up and scale-up businesses, he was appointed as the first professor of entrepreneurship in Wales in 1996 and has held senior posts in several universities. He is currently visiting professor at Turku University in Finland and Aston University in the UK.

David Jordan is a Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast. His research focuses on regional economics and the Northern Ireland economy, and how its performance is shaped by institutions and policy. David is also a Research Associate at the Queen’s University Centre for Economic History, and a Postgraduate Research Associate of the Queen’s University Institute of Irish Studies.