Experts

Christian Krekel is an Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics (LSE). He is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), LSE, and at the Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford. Christian’s research looks at how our environment affects our lives – specifically our behaviour, health, and (ultimately) wellbeing. He also works on how to make wellbeing data operational for

Michael Kremer is the Gates Professor of Developing Societies at Harvard University. His work focuses on innovation, including in education, health, water, finance and agriculture in developing countries. He is the joint winner of the 2019 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. Michael actively translates his academic work into programs that have impacted millions of lives. This includes work on innovation, deworming, water quality, and Advance Market Commitments for vaccinations.

Alex Krumer is a professor of sports economics at Molde University College in Norway. His main research interests are sports and behavioural economics. He published sports related papers in journals like European Journal of Operational Research, European Economic Review, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization, Journal of Law Economics and Organization, Economic Inquiry. He serves as an Associate Editor at Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics.

Sonya joined the IFS in February 2014 as Director of the Centre for the Evaluation of Development Policies (EDePo). Her main research interests are in the determinants of skill acquisition among children and young people living in poverty, as well as more broadly the mechanisms through which childhood conditions manifest in child development and outcomes. Her recent work focuses on the role of home and school factors in explaining the evolution of gaps in cognitive skills and school attainment among

Hande Küçük is the Deputy Director for Macroeconomics, Modelling and Forecasting at NIESR. She holds a PhD in Economics from the London School of Economics and previously worked as Deputy Director at the Central Bank of Turkey in the Research and Monetary Policy Department. She is experienced in central banking, macroeconomic modelling, forecasting and policy analysis. Her research areas are international macroeconomics and finance, monetary economics, applied econometrics.

Hill Kulu is Professor of Human Geography and Demography at the University of St Andrews.   He is Co-director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and Connecting Generations. His substantive research interests lie in the field of family, fertility, migration and health studies; his methodological interests include the development and application of longitudinal models in social science research. He is PI of the ERC-funded MigrantLife project and PI (at St Andrews) of the We-ID project. He was