Experts

Dr Christian Krekel is Associate Professor of Behavioural Science in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is Co-Director of the Wellbeing Programme at LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), as well as Research Affiliate at LSE’s Behavioural Research Lab and LSE’s Data Science Institute. He is also Research Associate at the Wellbeing Research Centre, University of Oxford. In his work, Christian looks at policies and

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.

Paul Krugman is a research professor at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, a core faculty member at the Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, and a LIS senior scholar. He previously taught at MIT, Stanford, and Princeton. He is the author or co-author of many academic papers and numerous books aimed at both professional and general audiences, including Market Structure and Foreign Trade, Geography and Trade, The Return of Depression Economics, and Arguing with Zombies:

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.