Experts

Stylianos Asimakopoulos is a Professor of Macroeconomics and Finance at Brunel University of London and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He has held positions at the European Central Bank and the Universities of Bath, Stirling, Nottingham, and Glasgow. His work has been published in highly ranked academic journals and focuses mainly on financial economics, corporate finance, green/sustainable finance, applied macroeconomics, and macro-finance topics.

Graeme Atherton has been working in the field of access to higher education for years. He leads the National Education Opportunities Network which is the professional organisation for access to higher education in the UK with over 100 organisations as members. Dr Atherton is one of the foremost experts on social mobility and higher education access in the UK specialising in university admissions, participation by those from white working class backgrounds and international, comparative differences

Ed Atkins works on decarbonisation, energy politics and social justice.

Heidi is Assistant Public Health Analyst at Hertfordshire County Council. Her work currently focuses on the use of data in the surveillance of COVID-19, as well as wider public health programmes. She has completed a master’s degree in Global Health Policy at London School of Economics (LSE), with her thesis on the monitoring of universal health coverage progress in Kenya. Her interest encompasses the monitoring and evaluation of both communicable diseases and health programmes delivery.

Brian Bell is Professor of Economics and Head of Department, Economics at King’s Business School. Brian joined King’s College London in January 2017. Previous to his appointment at King’s, he was Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Oxford (2012-2016) and Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (2009-2012) – where he remains a Research Associate. He has spent a significant part of his career outside of academia. He

Alex has an established reputation as a leading voice in national conversations relating to masculinity, education, inequality and access to Higher Education. Since completing his doctoral research which focused inequality and access to university for white working-class boys in the West Midlands in 2020, he has been a regular speaker at national conferences of the British Sociological Association, British Educational Research Association, Forum for Access and Continuation, and Higher Education