Experts

Ashwin is an economist and is Professor of Social Policy in the Policy Evaluation Research Unit at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is also the Unit’s Deputy Director. Ashwin works on analysis and modelling of incomes, poverty, the labour market and welfare reform. He is also a member of the UK Statistics Authority Advisory Panel on Consumer Prices (Stakeholder), and a member of the Audit Committee of the homelessness charity St Mungo’s

Margaret Kyle (MINES ParisTech and CEPR) currently holds the Chair in Intellectual Property and Markets for Technology at MINES ParisTech. Her research concerns innovation, productivity and competition. She has a number of papers examining R&D productivity in the pharmaceutical industry, specifically the role of geographic and academic spillovers; the firm-specific and policy determinants of the diffusion of new products; generic competition; and the use of markets for technology. Recent work

Adnan Khan is Professor in Practice at the School of Public Policy at LSE. He had earlier served in the policy world and later as Research and Policy Director at the International Growth Centre. He works on public policy, state capacity and political economy. He is affiliated with J-PAL at MIT, the Building State Capability Program at HKS, the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan, the Reducing State Fragilities Initiative at the IGC, and Yale’s Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale