Experts

My name is Ananya Mehta. I am a 3^rd year Economics and Mathematics student at the University of Bristol, and I’m interested in sustainability and development economics.

Muhammad Meki is a development economist based at the Oxford Department of International Development and the Centre for Islamic Studies. His research focuses on microfinance for microenterprises in low-income countries. Prior to academia, Muhammad worked as a trader in the financial markets, for Bank of America in London and Deutsche Bank in Singapore, where he traded European and Asian government bonds, foreign exchange derivatives and other fixed-income products.

Marco Mello is a Postgraduate Research Fellow at the University of Surrey where he works on a project to understand how staff retention can be improved to ease workforce pressures in the NHS. In Summer 2023 he takes up a lectureship at the University of Aberdeen.  Marco’s research interests span political economy, health economics, labour economics and consumption.  He has published work (with Giuseppe Moscelli) on the impact of Italian elections on Covid transmission and his work on how

Livia Menezes is an assistant professor at the University of Birmingham and a research affiliate at IZA. Her research focuses on public policy analysis related to crime, education, health and labour. Livia received her PhD in economics from the University of Leicester in 2018.