Experts

Pablo García Guzmán is an Associate Economist at the EBRD Office of the Chief Economist. He holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a BSc in Economics from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. At the EBRD, Pablo works with large-scale datasets to produce academic papers and major institutional publications, including the EBRD Transition Report. His research interests include demographic change, migration, and intergenerational mobility and inequality. Beyond his academic and

Teodoro Crisólogo Grández is Research and Business Development Manager at the Trade Policy Hub and a Research Assistant at the School of Public Policy, both at the London School of Economics. An economist with nine years of experience in macroeconomic analysis and applied policy research, he was previously a Senior Economist at the Peruvian Institute of Economics and has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru. He holds a Master of Public Policy

Caitjan Gainty is a historian of 20th century health and healthcare. She is the PI of the Wellcome-funded project Healthy Scepticism, which reconsiders the role of evidence and expertise in medical knowledge-making processes, and her first book, in preparation, considers the early-twentieth century industrial origins of American healthcare. Her commitment to offering historical perspective on contemporary healthcare has recently led a series of articles on COVID-19.

Yannis Galanakis is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the School of Economics at the University of Kent. His research interests lie in Labour and Applied Economics. His recent work focuses on firm creation, mismatch and gender inequalities in the labour market.

Vincenzo Galasso is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan; Research Fellow at CEPR, London at CES-Ifo, Munich, and at IGIER, Milan. He is the Director of the Research Unit “APE, Analysis in Pension Economics” at Baffi Center. He is co-Editor of the European Journal of Political Economy, and of the Journal of Pension Economics and Finance. His research deals with political economics, aging, social security and the welfare state.

Andrea Galeotti is an expert in microeconomics, industrial organisation and game theory. His research focuses on the economics of networks, with a particular interest in diffusion models and strategic behaviour. His most recent work studies optimal policy interventions that are targeted taking into account network structure. Since the starting of Covid-19 pandemic he has been interested in the information value of testing, and how to combine information theory within network models to better