François Lafond is a senior research officer at the Mathematical Institute and deputy director of the Complexity Economics group at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford, and an associate member of Nuffield college. His main areas of research are in the economics of innovation and productivity, environmental economics, networks and complex systems, applied econometrics and forecasting.
Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford
François Lafond
University of Bristol
Ashley Lait
Ashley is the Research Editor at the Economics Observatory and leads on both our regional work and ECO magazine. She is also the Centre Manager at the Economics Network, an organisation that supports learning and teaching in higher education economics.
LSE
Camille Landais
Camille Landais is Professor of economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Director of the Public Economics Programme of the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). In addition to his academic position, he maintains affiliations with the Institut des politiques publiques, Institute for Fiscal Studies, STICERD, IZA Institute of Labor Economics, and the European Economic Association, on whose council he sits. His research focuses on public finance and labour economics and his articles have appeared in various leading journals such as the American Economic Review, or the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
Philip Lane
Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement.
Samuel Langton
Sam’s research focuses on examining the spatial and temporal patterning of crime. His recent work focused on describing and explaining crime during the COVID-19 pandemic. He is currently working on a project in the Netherlands estimating demand for police services, including that originating from non-crime incidents. Sam is also interested in data visualisation, mapping and promoting the use of open software in social science.
