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University of East Anglia

Anthony Howe

Anthony Howe is Emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of East Anglia. He is the main editor of The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-1865) (four volumes, Oxford University Press, 2007-2015) and collaborator in The Letters of Richard Cobden Online (to be launched September 2023). His other publications include Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946 (1998). He is currently engaged on an international history of free trade from Adam Smith to the World Trade organization.

Panmure House, Edinburgh

Caroline Howitt

Caroline is the Programme Director at Panmure House, Adam Smith’s home in Edinburgh. She is responsible for directing all Panmure’s public engagement programmes, leading the Panmure House team in their mission to steward and apply Adam Smith’s insights for a 21st-century society. Caroline attended the University of Glasgow before undertaking postgraduate study at Balliol College, Oxford under the Snell Scholarship. She later wrote her PhD on the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, and taught

London School of Economics

Helen Hughson

Helen is a Research Officer at the London School of Economics, where she has contributed to research on tax policy, inequality, migration, including the work of the UK Wealth Tax Commission. Previously, she worked for five years at the Reserve Bank of Australia on labour market and international developments, and co-authored working papers on household responses to monetary policy and the market for overnight cash in Australia. Helen has an MSc Economics from University College London.

University of Oxford

Charles Hulme

Charles Hulme is Professor of Psychology and Education at the University of Oxford. His research interests span reading, language and memory processes and their development and is an expert on randomized controlled trials in Education. His work on reading development has made important contributions to understanding the role of phonological skills in learning to read. He has also worked to develop early language intervention programmes for young children.

Yale University

John Eric Humphries

John Eric Humphries is an assistant professor of economics at Yale University. His research focuses on topics in labor economics and applied microeconomics. In particular, he studies education, career dynamics, and self-employment. Much of his work considers how policies affect the acquisition of human capital and labor market dynamics. His publications include work on the GED high school equivalency exam, information frictions for small businesses, and the estimation of dynamic treatment effects.

Humboldt-University of Berlin

Wolf-Fabian Hungerland

Wolf-Fabian Hungerland is an economist at Germany’s Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs. He also is a research fellow at the Institute of Economic History of Humboldt-University of Berlin and teaches at Stanford University s campus in Berlin. His research interests are international economics, EU policy, economic history and data science.His PhD in economics from Humboldt-University of Berlin was awarded with the Gerhard-Frst-Preis of the Federal Statistical Office of Germany in 2018.