The purpose of the committee is to nominate the incoming President-Elect of the Society, agree the candidates for the annual Council ballot and appoint co-opted Trustees.
Life Vice-President
Charles is a professor of economics at LSE and a member of the Budget Responsibility Committee at OBR. He previously served as Chief Economist (2000-8) and Deputy Governor (2008-14) at the Bank of England. He was President of RES from 2013 to 2015 and was knighted for services to monetary policy in 2014.
President-Elect
Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge. She is Research Director of the Bennett School of Public Policy. Her own research focuses on the economics of AI and digital, and on economic measurement.
Diane is currently a member of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Council, the Treasury/DSIT AI and Future of Work Unit, and advises the Competition and Markets Authority. She has served previously in a number of public service roles including as Vice Chair of the BBC Trust, member of the Competition Commission, the Natural Capital Committee and most recently the New Towns Taskforce.
Diane was awarded a DBE in 2023 for her contribution to economics and public policy. She was a student at Brasenose College, Oxford, reading PPE (1978). She has a PhD in Economics from Harvard (1985).
Council member, Trustee and Elections Officer (until 2027)
Melanie Jones is a Professor of Economics at Cardiff Business School and Head of Economics Section. 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 currently an Associate Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations and a member of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration, ONS Economics Experts Working Group and National Statistician’s Inclusive Data Advisory Committee.
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.
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)
Arun Advani is Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Taxation and Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick. He is a Research Fellow at the IFS and an Editor at International Tax and Public Finance, Associate Editor at Fiscal Studies, and on the Editorial Board of the Economics Observatory.
Arun is co-chair of the Discover Economics campaign, aiming to increase the diversity of people who study and work in economics.
Council member (until 2028)
Council member (until 2030)
Council member (until 2030)
Climent Quintana-Domeque is a Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter. He earned his PhD in Economics from Princeton University and has taught at Universitat d’Alacant and the University of Oxford. He is Subject Lead for Applied Microeconomics at Exeter, and his research examines diverse topics, from the effects of public infrastructure on the lives of the poor to the socioeconomic determinants of health, with recent work on non-fatal strangulation laws and intimate partner homicides. He serves as an editor of the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and is affiliated with international research networks including IZA@LISER. In 2024, he received the University of Exeter Supervisor of the Year Award, and in 2026 he was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Life Vice-President
Rachel is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and a Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). She was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2015 for services to economic policy. She is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the British Academy, the Academy of Social Sciences and a Research Fellow of CEPR.
