Goldsmiths, University of London
Ariane Agunsoye is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her research, published in leading journals, explores how people from a variety of social and demographic backgrounds respond to the growing pressure to manage financial risk. Her most recent book challenges the “financially irresponsible” label and rethinks how people make investment decisions, through the lens of real-life norms, not theoretical assumptions. She is an Associate Member of Aston University’s Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing and a steering committee member of D-Econ.
University of East Anglia
Fabio Aricò is Professor of Higher Education and Economics at the University of East Anglia and founding Director of CHERPPS, UEA’s Centre for Higher Education Research Practice Policy and Scholarship. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Warwick and previously held academic positions at the University of Pavia, the University of St Andrews and Vanderbilt University before joining UEA in 2012. A labour economist by training, his research lies at the intersection of the economics of education and higher education policy and practice. His work examines widening participation, educational gain and attainment gaps, and the institutional and behavioural drivers of inequality in student outcomes. He also researches assessment design and pedagogical reform, particularly where these interact with regulatory and accountability frameworks. Fabio is a member of the Executive Group of the Economics Network and serves on the Editorial Board of the International Review of Economics Education. He has co-led randomised control trials and quasi-experimental design funded projects on student engagement, communication and peer learning as mechanisms to reduce inequality in higher education.
MSB Executive
Martyn Barmby is the founder of MSB Executive, a specialist communication skills consultancy established in 2009. He is passionate about helping people communicate with confidence and impact, so they can achieve the success they deserve.
Before launching MSB Executive, Martyn led complex change programmes across Europe and the US, roles that demanded exceptional communication and diplomacy. He later followed his passion for acting, training at the renowned East 15 Acting School, and built a successful career in theatre, film, and television.
Martyn began sharing the powerful techniques he learned as an actor with professionals in business. He had seen too many talented individuals and companies lose out to less capable competitors simply because their communication let them down. MSB Executive bridges this gap by making performance-based communication techniques practical and relevant for the business world.
Today, Martyn leads a talented team of ten consultants working globally, with deep expertise in Financial Services, Technology, and Legal sectors. He personally heads the Financial Services practice, where he excels at making complex, technical topics engaging and accessible for all audiences.
Anglia Ruskin University & University of Cambridge
Dr Nick Drydakis is Professor of Economics at Anglia Ruskin University and Course Lead and Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, Pembroke College. He is a consultant to the International Labour Organization and the European Commission. He is the Founder of the Centre of Inclusive Societies and Economies and the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Economic Exploitation and Inequality, as well as Editor-in-Chief of the Elsevier Major Reference Work Inequality in Society. He is an Expert at the Centre for Science and Policy at the University of Cambridge and a Spokesperson for IZA-LISER: IZA World of Labor, in collaboration with the World Bank and the OECD. He has published in leading international journals, and his work has generated world-leading impact as assessed by the UK Government’s Research Excellence Framework.
University of Texas at Austin
Daniel S. Hamermesh received his A.B. from the University of Chicago (1965), his Ph.D. from Yale (1969). His two most well-known scholarly works are Labor Demand, Princeton University Press, 1993, and “Beauty and the Labor Market,” Amer. Econ. Rev., 1994. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1996, received the annual Jacob Mincer Award of the Society of Labor Economists for lifetime contributions to labor economics and the annual IZA Prize in labor economics in 2013. He has held tenure-stream positions at Princeton, Michigan State, University of Texas at Austin, and Royal Holloway University of London, instructing courses from graduate labor economics through giant sections of introductory microeconomics.
University of Bristol
Tai-Wei is a Professor of Economics at University of Bristol. Their research interests includes Game Theory, Bounded Rationality, Monetary Economics, Macro Finance, Financial Networks, and Credit Markets.
Bank of England
Sudipto is a Research Adviser in the BoE Financial Stability Strategy and Risk Directorate. He is a macroeconomist with interest in macroprudential policy, real-financial sector linkages and issues related to corporate investment and productivity. He has extensive experience in working with DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) models and large scale micro datasets.
Before he joined BoE, he worked as an Economist in the research department of the Bank of Portugal, as a Technical Adviser and a Visiting Researcher at the Bank for International Settlements and as a research intern at the International Monetary Fund.
Sudipto has a PhD in Economics from Boston University, an MSc in Economics from the University of Calcutta and a BSc in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata.
Last year, Miquel was a job market candidate from the University of Nottingham and will soon join a university in Spain as an Assistant Professor of Economics. During his PhD, he visited the University of Toronto. He previously earned an MSc in Economics from the University of Barcelona and a BSc in Economics from the University of Girona. He also holds a BSc in Mathematics from UNED. His research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics and industrial organisation, with a focus on firm dynamics, growth, and advertising.
National Bank of Slovakia
London School of Economics and Political Science
Almudena Sevilla is a Professor of Economic and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. She is currently the Founding Chair of the Royal Economic Society UK Women in Economics Network and the LSE Women in Social and Public Policy Research Hub. She has also held positions at University College London, Queen Mary University, University of Oxford, University of Essex, and the Congressional Budget Office in Washington DC. She received her Ph.D. from Brown University in 2004 in the fields of family and population economics and econometrics.
Almudena has a successful track-record in gender economics research. Early in her career, she received the prestigious Marie J. Langlois Prize for her doctoral research on gender economics and the status of women in the academic field. Her research is regularly published in top-tier international journals such as the American Economic Review, Demography, and the Journal of Labor Economics. She also serves on the editorial boards of leading journals including Feminist Economics and Review of the Economics of the Household. Her work has attracted substantial research funding, including the highly competitive European Research Council Consolidator Grant of over £2M.
Professor Sevilla holds key leadership positions in major economic associations, has recently been elected President of the Society of the Economics of the Household, and is a sought-after speaker at leading academic and policy forums where she discusses women’s roles in the economy. She has recently been appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her contributions to Economics and the advancement of women in the field.
