Experts

Rebekah Stroud has been a research economist in the industrial organisation and demand team at the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2017. Most of her research looks at how policy can be used to discourage socially harmful behaviour, with particular application to food and drink consumption and motoring vehicles. She is also one of the researchers involved in the NIHR obesity policy research which draws together researchers from a number of different disciplines with the aim of informing the design of better policy to tackle the obesity crisis.

Using experimental methods, Natalie studies the behaviour of individuals and groups in social dilemma situations, with a focus on the strategic configuration of many environmental problems. Her research considers the behaviour and motivations of the general population supporting public good provision through voluntary donations, as well as identifying critical design attributes that have the potential to promote sustainable cooperation between public good providers and the broader population.

Andy is an Associate Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and an Associate of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. His teaching and research focuses on tax law and policy, particularly the taxation of wealth. His work also investigates the measurement of inequality using tax data.

Paolo’s expertise lays at the intersection of macroeconomics, finance and applied econometrics. His research focuses on the evaluation of macroeconomic policies using micro-data at the household- and firm-level. Paolo’s latest empirical work has looked the distributional effects of monetary policy and fiscal policy on inequality, consumption and investment across British households and firms, with particular emphasis to the role of housing debt in the transmission mechanism.

Edward Sweeney is Professor of Logistics and Systems and Head of the Engineering Systems & Supply Chain Management (ESSCM) Department at Aston University in Birmingham, UK. His research has been widely published and he sits on the editorial boards of several leading international journals. Edward has worked in close collaboration with many of the world’s leading companies across various sectors including electronics, food and drink, life sciences and logistics. His current work focusses on the issues of supply chain sustainability and integration in global supply chains.

As Director of Policy and Research, Paul oversees the research programme and strategy of the Centre. He has published on a wide range of subjects relating to city economies, including the development of UK cities over time, the role that city centres play in the national economy and the trading relationships UK cities have with the rest of the world.