Experts

Mehdi is an Economist at the GO Lab. His work involves enhancing the reliability of impact bond evaluations by promoting robust economic evaluation methods such as cost-effectiveness and decision analysis. Prior to joining the GO Lab team, he worked with medical researchers at the Ninewells Hospital, Dundee to analyse the cost-effectiveness of an innovative methods of diagnosing prostate cancer. Other experience includes directing a research programme of an entrepreneurial company, Happening

Professor Emily Shuckburgh OBE is a world-leading climate scientist, and Director of Cambridge Zero, the University of Cambridge’s climate change initiative. She is also Professor of Environmental Data Science and Academic Director of the Institute of Computing for Climate Science. She leads the UK national research funding body’s (UKRI) Centre for Doctoral Training on the Application of AI to the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER) and is a director of the Centre for Landscape Regeneration

Dr Luke Sibieta is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and Education Policy Institute. He currently leads IFS’s ongoing work on education spending and resources. His research covers education spending, the teacher labour market and educational inequalities

Luigi Siciliani has specialised in the economics of hospitals and has published over 85 articles in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include waiting times for non-emergency treatment, hospital quality competition, contracting theory applied to health care, pay for performance and coordination between health and social care. He is an Editor of the Journal of Health Economics, and member of the European Commission Expert Panel on Effective Ways of Investing in Health.

Professor Dina M. Siddiqi is a cultural anthropologist by training. Her research — grounded in the study of Bangladesh — joins critical development studies, transnational feminist theory, and the anthropology of labor and Islam.  She has published extensively on the global garment industry and supply chains, non-state gender justice systems, and the cultural politics of Islam, feminism, and nationalism.  She is currently engaged in a project on discourses of national development and

Abu is a postdoctoral researcher in economics at the Technical University of Munich. His main research interest lies in the field of development economics, particularly in the economic consequences of ethnic discrimination, mental health, endogenous formation of preferences, and the economic impacts of the coronavirus pandemic in developing countries. Abu holds a PhD in economics from the University of Southampton, an MSc in Economics and Econometrics from the University of Southampton, and a BSc