Experts

Kimberley Long is Asia editor of The Banker magazine. Her role involves covering banking, capital markets and transaction services from central Asia to the Pacific Islands. She heads up the 50:50 Project at The Banker, to push for gender parity across the publication, and is a steering committee member for the FT Embrace Diversity and Inclusion group. During 2023, she was a member of the Financial Times Next Generation Board, with a focus on D&I at the company. She joined The Banker from

Graham has degrees in Economics from the universities of Essex and Birkbeck College London. He previously held posts at the universities of Newcastle, York and East Anglia and has been at Warwick since 2009. He has undertaken research for a number of government bodies in the UK and elsewhere, and has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and the Leverhulme Trust. Currently, he is a co-investigator in the ESRC’s Network for Integrated Behavioural Science and the

Tom is a founder of Public Digital. He is a leading figure and pioneer in the area of digital transformation, well known for propagating a broader definition of digital that goes beyond technology and focuses on organisational culture.Tom has advised the senior leaders of a diverse range of influential public and private sector organisations around the world, from the likes of Phoenix Group to HSBC to the NHS, including helping the Government of California and the Premier League respond to the

Hamish is the James Meade Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College. He is also a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Prior to joining Oxford in 2018, Hamish was a Professor of Economics and Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge. Hamish holds a PhD in Economics from University College London. His research agenda is focused on three connected sets of issues: first, what sort of uncertainty do individuals face

Dr Saite Lu is a senior teaching associate in development economics at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge and a research associate for the Wealth Economy project at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy. The project explores the conceptualisation and measurement of ‘missing capitals’. His work mainly considers the role of human capital and its interactions with social and natural capital. His secondary research field is on national accounting and empirical macroeconomic

Kate Lucas is an Editorial Assistant at ECO’s Bristol hub. She graduated from the University of Bristol in 2021 with a degree in Economics, and is shortlisted for the Playfair Prize. She will be working at L.E.K. Consulting as an Associate Consultant from September.