Experts

Leonardo Iacovone is Lead Economist at the World Bank and Adjunct Professor of Economics at Hertie School. His area of research expertise include development economics, business dynamics, productivity, entrepreneurship, innovation, trade and youth unemployment, with a special focus on policy evaluation. His research has been published in numerous renowned journals such as Science, Economic Journal, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Economics, World Development, etc

Gbenga is a Professor of Finance at the University of Edinburgh, the Director for Industry, Economy and Society at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, the Deputy Scientific Director at the European Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre in Pescara and a Research Fellow at the RoZetta Institute in Sydney. His research interests include market microstructure, asset pricing, financial econometrics, financial technology/innovation and the application of machine learning and AI in finance.

Guto Ifan is part of the Wales Fiscal Analysis (WFA) programme within Cardiff University’s Wales Governance Centre. His research interests include public finances, fiscal policy, and tax devolution. The WFA programme regularly publishes commentary and analysis on the Welsh Government budget and the Welsh economy.

Clément Imbert is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick. He was previously Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Nuffield College. His areas of research are development economics, labor economics and public economics. His current research focuses on internal migration in Brazil, China and India. He also studies social protection and tax compliance in Ethiopia, India, Belgium and France.

Dave leads the Economics team at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an independent social change organisation working to solve UK poverty. Dave’s work focuses on making work a route out of poverty, and at JRF he has worked on the labour market, industrial strategy, productivity and cities. Dave previously worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and before that spent two years in the Rwandan civil service.

Annie Irvine is a qualitative researcher with expertise in mental health, employment and welfare systems. Currently at the ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health, she is developing a programme of qualitative research on transitions between welfare and employment for people with experience of mental health problems, in the context of a precarious labour market. Annie prioritises research that has policy and practice relevance, whilst also exploring social conceptualisations of mental health.