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The RES Council supervises and advises on the Society’s activities. It meets twice-yearly and consists of the President, President-elect, Immediate Past President, Life Vice Presidents, Honorary Treasurer, Chair of Trustees and thirty elected councillors (three of whom are appointed to the Trustee Board).
President
Mary is the Albert O. Hirschman Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics at the London School of Economics; she is a Fellow of the British Academy (and served as Vice President 2014-8), and an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences.
President Elect
Sir Christopher Antoniou Pissarides FBA is a Cypriot economist. He is the School Professor of Economics & Political Science and Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics, and Professor of European Studies at the University of Cyprus. His research focuses on topics of macroeconomics, notably labour, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, jointly with Peter A. Diamond and Dale Mortensen, for the analysis of markets with theory of search frictions.
Chair Elect of Trustees and Co-opted Trustee
Anton has been Principal and Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow since 2009. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was Chair of the Russell Group of Universities in 2017-20. He currently chairs the Economic Commission for the Glasgow Region City Deal. He was awarded the honour of Commendatore of the Republic of Italy in 2008, and a Knighthood in 2017.
Honorary Treasurer
Andrew is now retired, following 13 years as CFO & Finance Director at the LSE and 20+ years with Xerox Corporation’s European Headquarters. Since retirement, he has had assignments as Director of Finance and Corporate Resources at The British Academy and as a Non-Executive Director at a London NHS Trust. He is a Trustee of the Epilepsy Society, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
Council representative (until 2024)
Tera leads economic research at McKinsey & Company and is a Trustee of the Productivity Leadership Group and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Previously, she worked as Deputy Head of the Government Economic Service and as a management consultant at McKinsey. Tera holds a M.Sc. in Technology and Industrial Economics (with distinction) from Aalto University and an M.B.A. (with distinction) from INSEAD. In 2018, Tera was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to economic policy.
Council member (until 2024)
Professor of Economics and Director of Research, University of Essex. Her research agenda is focused on the nature, causes, and consequences of disparities in children’s human capital that lead to inequalities later on in life.
Council member (until 2024)
Jagjit Chadha is Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). He was Professor of Economics at the University of Kent, Cambridge and St Andrews. He has worked at the Bank of England on Monetary Policy and as Chief Quantitative Economist at BNP Paribas and served as Chair of the Money, Macro, Finance Study Group. He has acted as Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and adviser to the Bank of England, HM Treasury and to many central banks.
Council member (until 2024)
Simon joined the University of Nottingham in February 2005. He is Professor of the Psychology of Economic Decision Making. He received his doctorate in Economics in Vienna. Before coming to Nottingham he worked at the Universities of Vienna, Linz, Zurich, and St. Gallen. He is also affiliated with the CESifo network (Munich), and the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA Bonn).
Council member (until 2024)
Sara Horrell is a Reader in Economic History in the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge and a Fellow at Murray Edwards College. Her research focuses on women’s and children’s work and welfare in C19th Britain and in contemporary contexts. She was an editor of the Economic History Review 2015-19 and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Research Associate at CAGE, University of Warwick.
Council member (until 2024)
Karen Mumford is a Professor who specialises in applied labour economics. She received her PhD from the Australian National University (ANU). She is currently an elected Member of the RES Council, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and an IZA Research Fellow. She was appointed CBE for services to Economics and Labour Market Diversity in the 2016 New Year’s Honours List.
Council member (until 2025)
Luisa is Chief Economist at Ofcom, the UK communications regulator. She is a member of Ofcom’s executive board, and leads the Economics Group. She joined from PwC where she headed the Competition Economics practice.
Council representative (until 2025) and Elections Officer (until 2025)
Miguel’s main research interests revolve around the observation and modelling of the behaviour of individuals in a variety of economic contexts under controlled conditions in the computer laboratory.
Council member (until 2025)
Sanjeev Goyal is a pioneer and leading international scholar in the study of social and economic networks. His book, ‘Connections: an introduction to the economics of networks’, was published in 2007 by Princeton University Press. A Chinese translation appeared in 2010.
Council member (until 2025)
Maia Güell received her PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics in 2000. Right after graduate school, she was a visiting lecturer at Princeton University and then moved to Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she was first an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor (with tenure). In 2007, she was appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Edinburgh.
Council member (until 2025)
Cheti Nicoletti (BSc Padova, MA Louvain-la-Neuve, PhD Florence) is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of York. She is also the Leader of the Applied Micro-Econometrics Cluster within the Department, (AME).
Council member (until 2025)
Jackie is Professor of Economics at the University of Southampton. She has been a member of the UK Migration Advisory Committee since 2012. She leads the Migration Research at the ESRC Centre for Population Change. She is a research fellow of Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Institute of Labour Studies (IZA) and Economic Research Forum (ERF). She has acted as an advisor to several international organisations, including the EC, the World Bank, IOM, ILO and OECD.
Council member (until 2026)
Abi Adams-Prassl is an Associate Professor in Economics at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at the IFS, CEP, CEPR, and the Bonavero Institute for Human Rights. She has been awarded a number of prizes for her academic work and its policy impact, including the ESRC Outstanding Impact in Public Policy Prize and an ERC Starting Grant. She is currently an Associate Editor of the Review of Economic Studies and a Special Advisor to the UK Parliament Women and Equalities Committee.
Council member (until 2026)
Jonathan Athow graduated with a master’s degree in economics from the University of East Anglia. He worked for 14 years in HM Treasury before becoming Chief Economist at HM Revenue and Customs. Between 2015 and 2021, he was Deputy National Statistician for Economic Statistics at the Office for National Statistics. Jonathan has since returned to HM Revenue and Customs and is Director General for Customer Strategy and Tax Design.
Council member (until 2026)
Kate is Chief Economist at the Financial Conduct Authority, where she heads a division responsible for providing rigorous economic thinking, research, analysis, and advice to help the FCA deliver on its strategic objective of making financial services markets work well. Kate has nearly 20 years’ experience as an economist in roles spanning the public and private sector. Kate has undertaken several senior roles in government. She has published in The Economic Journal.
Council member (until 2026)
Monica Costa-Dias is Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol and Deputy Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She holds a PhD in Economics from UCL and is Visiting Professor at the University of Porto, a Council Member of the European Economic Association (2021-25), a Research Fellow at IZA, CEPR and the HCEO, and the editor of Fiscal Studies. She is a labour economist.
Council member (until 2026)
Swati Dhingra is Associate Professor in Economics at LSE, and associate of the Centre for Economic Performance. She is currently a member of the UK’s Trade Modelling Review Expert Panel and LSE’s Economic Diplomacy Commission. She is Research Fellow at CEPR, and on the editorial boards of Journal of International Economics and Review of Economic Studies. Her research is in international economics and industrial policy. She has published in leading academic journals.
Council member (until 2026)
Emma Tominey is a Professor of Economics at the University of York, specialising in labour economics and child human capital. Emma worked at the University of Bristol before gaining a PhD from University College London, where she worked at the Centre for Economic Performance. Emma’s research is highly policy relevant – her research on youth unemployment influences UK and EU policy and Emma consults with UK government including HM Treasury. Her research has won awards including from EALE.
Council member (until 2027)
Jo Blanden is Reader in Economics at the University of Surrey where she has worked since completing her PhD in Economics at UCL in 2005. She is a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. Her research focuses on intergenerational mobility and related issues in the Economics of Education, including Early Years and the recent disruptions to education from the pandemic. She regularly provides advice to Government and she is a member of the ESRC peer review college.
Council member (until 2027)
Anita Charlesworth is Director of Research and the REAL Centre at the Health Foundation. She is Honorary Professor at the University of Birmingham, Chair of the Office of Health Economics and specialist adviser to the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee. She has a MSc in health economics and BA in social science. She has worked in government (an economist in DHSC/Director of Public spending in HM Treasury), pharmaceutical industry and the third sector.
Council member (until 2027)
Sriya Iyer is Professor of Economics and Social Science at the University of Cambridge; Fellow, St Catharine’s College and Deputy Director, The Keynes Fund. Her research encompasses development, economics of religion, demography and health. She read for economics degrees in Delhi, India and Cambridge, UK, and has taught at Cambridge for twenty years. She is a Research Fellow of CEPR; Pew Research Centre’s India Advisory Board; Deputy Programme Chair, RES Conference 2020; and serves on the editorial boards of three journals. Her recent books are on The Economics of Religion in India (Harvard) and Advances in the Economics of Religion (IEA, Palgrave).
Council member (until 2027)
Melanie Jones is a Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School. Her research interest is empirical labour economics, and she has worked on a range of policy relevant issues, including for the Low Pay Commission and the Office of Manpower Economics. She is a former Associate of The Economics Network, and is currently an associate editor at the British Journal of Industrial Relations and a member of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration and ESRC Grant Assessment Panel C.
Council member (until 2027)
Ben Lockwood is Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He has held appointments at the Universities of Cambridge, London, and Exeter. His research is mainly in public economics and political economy and has been published in journals including the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, and Review of Economics and Statistics. He has held editorial positions at Review of Economic Studies, & Economic Journal.
Council member (until 2027)
Anna Vignoles is Director of the Leverhulme Trust: one of the largest research funders in the UK. An education economist and previously a Professor at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the relationship between educational achievement and social mobility and the role played by skills in the economy. She has advised numerous government departments, including the Department for Education, of Business, Innovation and Skills, and HM Treasury.
Council member (until 2028)
Arun Advani is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is also affiliated with the IFS, LSE International Inequalities Institute, CESifo, IZA, and the World Inequality Lab. He studies issues of tax compliance and tax design, with a particular focus on those with high incomes or wealth; and issues of education and skills development in the labour market. Together with Sarah Smith, he co-founded and co-chairs Discover Economics, a campaign to both increase access to economics, and increase the diversity of people who study and work in economics. At the RES, Arun was a member of the Schools sub-committee, and is on the DE Grants panel.
Council member (until 2028)
Parama Chaudhury is a Professor at UCL and has experience in UCL’s BAME awarding gap project, helping a diverse range of colleagues to develop, use and disseminate good practice in economics education and widening participation initiatives, to further the RES’s work in this area. This builds on her work to date with the RES’ Education and Training Committee. She is also the Founding Director of CTaLE, and sits on the panel for the CORE Project’s Learning Committee.
Council member (until 2028)
David Jaeger is Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews. His research, primarily focusing on labor economics, conflict, and applied econometrics, has been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Journal of Public Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association, among others. He is the Editor of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy. David is a Research Fellow at IZA and CEPR and, prior to moving to St Andrews, was a Research Associate at the NBER.
Council member (until 2028)
Almudena Sevilla is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at LSE and a recipient of an ERC grant. Her research focuses on the areas of gender economics and human capital and is published in top economics journals. She has held positions at leading institutions such as University College London, the University of Oxford, and the US Congress. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2004. Almudena is president-elect of the Society of the Economics of the Household, and Chair of the RES UK-Women in Economics Network (UK-WEN).
Council member (until 2028)
Misa Tanaka is Head of Research at the Bank of England and is responsible for the Bank’s research strategy. She holds a D.Phil. in Economics from the University of Oxford and has several academic publications on financial regulation and the impact of climate change on central banks. She is a member of both the RES’s Women’s Committee and the Steering Group of the UK Women in Economics. She has previously served on the Research Accreditation Panel of the UK Statistics Authority.
Council member (until 2028)
Stephanie Von Hinke is Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol. Her research builds on the biomedical as well as economic and social sciences. She investigates the importance of parental investments, early life environments, genetics, and government policy in explaining individuals’ health and economic outcomes over the life course. She currently holds an ERC Starting Grant, examining the importance of the nature-nurture interplay in shaping individuals’ life chances. She is joint PI on an EU-funded Doctoral Network aiming to incorporate molecular genetic data into the social sciences.
