Experts

David F. Hendry Kt is Co-director of Climate Econometrics & Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, previously Professor and Chairman, Oxford University Economics Department. He is past President, Royal Economic Society; Fellow, British Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Econometric Society, & Academy of Social Sciences; Foreign Honorary Member, American Economic Association & American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He researches econometrics, macroeconomics, climate & forecasting.

Alexander Haas is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the University of Oxford. He is also affiliated with the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin). Over the course of his PhD, Alex has spent several months visiting the Bank of England and the European Central Bank. His research interests are in macroeconomics, monetary policy, and financial intermediation.

Dr. Hassan Hakimian is Professor of Economics and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD) at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. During 2010-19, he was Director of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS University of London. Prior to that, he was an Associate Dean at Cass Business School, London, where he was responsible for Executive MBA Programs and set up pioneering EMBA programs in Shanghai and Dubai.

His research focuses on MENA economies, specifically labour markets, economic sanctions, inclusive growth and the economics of Arab uprisings. He is the author of Labour Transfer and Economic Development (1990), co-editor of The State and Global Change (2000 with Ziba Moshaver), Trade Policy and Economic Integration in MENA (2003 with Jeff Nugent), Iran and the Global Economy: Petro Populism, Islam and Economic Sanctions (2014 with Parvin Alizadeh) and Environmental Challenges in the MENAS Region (2019 with Hamid Pouran). His latest work is the edited volume The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy (2021).

Dr. Hakimian is a Founding Member and a past President of the International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA), a Lifetime Research Fellow and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Economic Research Forum (ERF), the largest large network of Middle East Economists based in Cairo. He is also the Founder and Series Editor for the “Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa,” which he launched in 2003.

Sarah Hall is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham and a Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe. Her research centres on services trade, particularly financial services, with a focus on the uneven economic geographies of post-Brexit UK. She has provided evidence to a range of trade bodies, policy makers and the media including at Westminster, to the Scottish Parliament, The Financial Times, the BBC, The New York Times and The Daily Telegraph.

Lucy is a Research Assistant at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy working on the Sectoral Productivity project, which investigates the patterns and drivers of productivity in different sectors. Her research interests include the economic impacts of artificial intelligence, research productivity, the science of science, and economic growth. She holds a BA in PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) from the University of Oxford and an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick.