Experts

Madeline is Director & Co-founder at Salient, an international behavioural science consultancy. She is an expert within private, public, and not-for-profit organizations, focusing primarily in the areas of finance, energy, and risk management. Maddie’s primary research explores the impact of mindfulness meditation on financial decision-making, at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She also holds her CFA Charter, and degrees in both Finance (B.Comm) and Psychology (B.A.).

William Quinn is an economic and financial historian and Lecturer in Finance at Queen’s Management School, Belfast. His research focuses on market manipulation, corners, and financial bubbles, particularly in historical stock markets. He is the author of Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles, co-authored with John Turner and published by Cambridge University Press. Boom and Bust has been critically acclaimed by the Wall Street Journal, The Critic, and the Irish Times, and was named

Simon Quinn is an Associate Professor at the University of Oxford, working on applied microeconometrics and development. His research uses field experiments and other methods to study firms and labour markets in low-income countries.

Climent Quintana-Domeque is a Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter. He is a Research Fellow at IZA@LISER network (Luxembourg) and a member of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Family Inequality network at the University of Chicago. He graduated with a Llicenciatura in Economics from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he ranked first in the class of 2002, and completed his PhD in Economics at Princeton University in 2008 under the supervision of Alan Krueger. An applied

Edika is a Career Development Fellow at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Her research focuses on behavioural household finance, particularly on consumers’ attitudes towards saving, borrowing, and spending. Her most recent projects use mass transaction data to understand how patterns in credit card expenditure can help to predict consumer default behaviour, how investors pay selective attention to their portfolios, and what are the psychological determinants of investment success.