Experts

Rachel is an applied microeconomist with a focus on public policy. Her research considers the impacts of government policies on the behaviours of firms, workers, consumers and the functioning of markets. She has published widely on the impacts of policy on nutrition, innovation, and productivity. She is interested in improving the ways that economists communicate with the wider public, and increasing diversity of all kinds in the economics profession.

Jan Grobovšek is a Lecturer at the School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh. He holds a PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. His area of expertise is economic growth and development. He has written research articles on how development is affected by agricultural productivity, structural transformation, managerial delegation in firms, trade in intermediate inputs, and the functioning of labor markets.

Benno is a co-founder and director of Salient Behavioural Consultants where he combines robust behavioural science frameworks with years of industry expertise. He is also a PhD Student at the LSE where he focuses on risk-taking in high stakes contexts. Special interests include time and domain specific risk-tolerance fluctuations as well as real-world applications in the context of background risk and in high-stake industries such as professional trading and aviation.

Danielle Guizzo is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Bristol (UK). Her research expertise is on History of Economics, Political Economy and Economics Education. She currently works on topics related to the history of economic expertise, the sociology of the economics discipline, and educational policy and economics education, focusing on diversity and decolonisation. She is also a co-founder and steering group member of D-Econ, and an affiliate researcher at

Sergei Guriev joined Sciences Po as a tenured professor of economics in 2013 after serving as the Rector of the New Economic School in Moscow in 2004-13. In 2016-19, he was on leave from Sciences Po serving as the Chief Economist and the Member of the Executive Committee of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). In 2022, Sergei Guriev was appointed Sciences Po’s Provost.

Benedict is an Economics PhD student at Chicago Booth. His research focuses on household finances – typically using a combination of big data and behavioural economics to understand consumer behaviour. Before moving to Chicago he previously spent 6+ years conducting economic research to inform financial regulation at the Financial Conduct Authority, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bank of England. He is a graduate of University of Warwick and University College London.