Experts

Dawn Holland is a Consultant on macroeconomic modelling and forecasting for the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and the United Nations, and is a Member of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. She has served as Chief of Global Economic Monitoring at the UN and as a Principal Research Fellow at NIESR, where she remains a Fellow. Her research interests include issues related to macroeconomic modelling and forecasting, production functions and fiscal multipliers.

Alex is a faculty at the Miami Herbert Business School specialized in financial economics, econometrics, and experimental and behavioral economics. He graduated from Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina) with a Licentiate degree in Economics and from Arizona State University (USA) with a Ph.D. in Economics. Among other outlets, Alex has published in Econometrica, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of the European Economic Association, and Management Science.

Julius Horvath is Professor of Economics and former Head of the Department of Economics at the Central European University. He is a member of Academia Europea and a member of the Council of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. His primary interest lies in international economic policy issues, the political economy of monetary relations, and the history of economic thought. He has published in journals such as Journal of Comparative Economics, Contemporary Economic Policy,

Will is a PhD student at London Business School in the Department of Economics. Will previously worked as an economist at PA Consulting where he performed economic and financial modelling to inform major public sector investment decisions and supported financial sector clients with macroeconomic analysis. He has also worked as a research assistant at London Business School. Will holds both a BSc and MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics where he specialised in monetary and

Professor Houston has over 20 years’ experience of research on the implications of urban and regional change for labour market disadvantage, particularly the roles of migration, transport, health, socio-economic segregation and housing in urban economic development. Public policy implications feature strongly in his work. He has previously held appointments at the Universities of Dundee, Glasgow and St Andrews, and is currently professor of Economic Geography at the University of Portsmouth.

Neil’s research looks at labour exploitation and social marginalisation. He examines the impact of economic shocks on labour ‘freedom’ and studies social protection interventions such as cash transfers and basic income. He has worked for extensive periods in West Africa and currently manages two research projects in India and Bangladesh.