Experts

Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven is a Lecturer in International Development at the University of York, UK. Her research fields include development finance, heterodox economics, structural features of underdevelopment, and critically assessing the economics field. She is the founder and editor of the blog Developing Economics, co-founder of Diversifying and Decolonisning Economics (D-Econ) and coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economics. She has a PhD in Economics from The New School.

Ricky Kanabar is an Assistant Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath. His principal research interests are in the social mobility, ageing and health. His research has featured in leading international economics journals, international newspapers and he has written articles in leading outlets such as The Economist, The Economics Observatory and The Conversation. Ricky has contributed to reports released by government departments in the UK and the OECD and continues to engage with such organisations on major public policy issues.

Heidi is a Research Economist in the Pensions and Public Finance sector. Her current work includes research on pensions and saving for retirement, with a focus on pension saving of the self-employed. Before joining the IFS, she worked in infrastructure financing.

Research interests: statistical decision theory (applied to experimental design, machine learning, policy choice, and empirical Bayes methods), statistics as a social process (publication bias etc.) the use of economic theory in econometrics, identification and causality, economic inequality and (optimal) taxation.