Acting President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
Holger Görg is currently Acting President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of International Economics at the University of Kiel. He is also Director of the Kiel Centre for Globalization, and is affiliated with the FIND Research Centre at Aarhus University, GEP at Nottingham University and IZA in Bonn. Before joining Kiel in 2008 he was on the staff at the University of Nottingham (2000 – 2008), the University of Ulster at Jordanstown and University College Cork. He completed a Ph.D. in Economics in 1999 at Trinity College Dublin.
His research interests are in empirical international trade and industrial organisation focusing in particular on the activities of multinational companies, foreign direct investment, and international outsourcing. He has published widely in international journals. Holger has also worked as Consultant for, among others, The World Bank, European Commission, UNIDO, UN Economic Commissions for Europe and Africa, and government bodies in the UK, Ireland and Germany.
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Professor in Contemporary European History, University of Stirling
Holger Nehring is a historian of post-1945 Western Europe, with special interest in the history of peace and other forms of social activism in Britain and West Germany, the intellectual history of the 'nuclear age', and the social history of the Cold War. He received his training in contemporary history, political science and philosophy at Tübingen University (Germany), the London School of Economics, and (as a Rhodes scholar) at University College, Oxford. Before joining the Sheffield History Department in March 2006, he was based at St. Peter's College, Oxford, as a junior research fellow. His book "Politics of Security", a comparative and transnational study of British and West German protests against nuclear weapons and their meanings in the context of the Cold War from 1945 to the late 1960s, was published by Oxford University Press in October 2013.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, School of Public Health and Thoracic Research Centre, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, Primary Care, University of Southampton
Hollie is an experienced researcher in chronic pain, focusing particularly on musculoskeletal pain and the integration of psychology in pain and health services research through multiple research projects:
- Leading a Cochrane review and network meta-analysis on the efficacy and safety of antidepressants for chronic pain.
- Exploring pain-related distress in chronic musculoskeletal pain and how to address this in primary care.
- Exploring the psychosocial mechanisms of chronic pain as part of the Consortium to Research Individual, Interpersonal, and Social mechanisms of pain (CRIISP, as part of the Advanced Pain Discovery Platform).
- Working within primary care randomised controlled trials for stratified care and clinician decision support systems.
Hollie’s has a School for Primary Care post-doctoral fellowship that was awarded the Elizabeth Murray award to explore the development of pain related distress in musculoskeletal pain.
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Senior lecturer, Macquarie University
Holly Doel-Mackaway is an academic at the Macquarie University Law School. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on international human rights law with a particular focus on children and young people.
Her 2022 book 'Indigenous Children's Right to Participate in Law and Policy Development' (Routledge) presents a model for reforming and developing Indigenous related legislation and policy in Australia and internationally. The model provides guidance about how to seek, listen to and respond to the voices of Indigenous children and young people.
Before becoming an academic Holly worked as a lawyer across more than 20 countries for the United Nations and various international non-government organisations providing specialised advice on international children’s rights law. She has held senior legal and managerial positions with a range of child focused agencies including UNICEF, Save the Children and the NSW Department of Community Services. Holly also operates a child rights consulting practice providing children's rights research, training, legislative and policy advice nationally and internationally on matters relating to child protection, girls’ rights, the commercial sexual exploitation of children, children engaged in armed conflict and child rights-based approaches to research and development.
Prior to becoming a lawyer Holly worked as a social worker with women and children who had experienced domestic violence and sexual abuse.
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Professor of English Literature, Cardiff University
Professor Holly Furneaux specialises in Victorian literature and culture. Together with Matilda Greig she is editor of Enemy Encounters in Modern Warfare and her book on Enemy Intimacies and Strange Meetings in Writings of Conflict 1800-1918 is forthcoming with Oxford University Press. Her research is featured in the current War and the Mind Exhibition at Imperial War Museum and she previously curated Created in Conflict: Soldier Art from the Crimean War to the Present. Her previous books include Military Men of Feeling: Emotion, Touch and Masculinity in the Crimean War and Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities. She was an advisor for the BBC's Dickensian.
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Associate Professor, Anthropology, Deakin University
I am an anthropologist, do fieldwork in Laos and use ethnographic methods and anthropological analysis to understand human experience. I was trained at Australian National University, and have held postdoctoral fellowships at Yale, Cambridge and Sydney. Now I live, work and raise two kids on the beautiful Wadawarung lands and I am a member of the Alfred Deakin Institute at Waurn Ponds Campus, Deakin University.
I have written about anthropological approaches to debt, power and desire; psychoanalytic theory and anthropology; Lao policy (including cultural, poverty, health and agricultural policies) in relation to lived experience in that country; everyday politics in Laos; emerging infectious disease as an intercultural zone; and religion in Laos.
Currently, I am investigating transformations in pregnancy, birth and early childhood in Laos.
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Director, Delaware Environmental Institute, and Professor of Earth Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Delaware
Holly Michael is the Unidel Fraser Russell Chair in the Environment and Professor in the Departments of Earth Sciences and Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Delaware. She is also Director of the Delaware Environmental Institute. She holds a BS in Civil Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in Hydrology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is an Associate Editor of Water Resources Research and served as the Geological Society of America James B. Thompson, Jr. International Distinguished Lecturer. Her research interests include saltwater intrusion, water resource management, contaminant hydrology, coastal hydrogeology, groundwater-surface water interactions, and geostatistics. Some of her current projects include investigating the coastal critical zone, measuring groundwater flow into estuaries, modeling groundwater salinization due to climate change, evaluating sustainability of arsenic-safe groundwater in Bangladesh, and application of experimental economics to groundwater resources.
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Special Projects Editor
Holly joined The Conversation at the start of 2015 from a background in broadcast journalism and magazine publishing having previously worked at the BBC as a journalist and researcher in radio and television. Holly regularly contributes to The Conversation's podcast The Anthill. Her role is part-funded by the Independent Social Research Foundation. She is based near Brighton.
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Visiting Lecturer in Anthropology, Wellesley College
Cultural anthropologist whose ethnographic work focuses on pilgrimage and politics in the Nepal Himalayas, as well as material culture, divine personhood, and ritual practice in South Asia. Drawing on theoretical frameworks in psychological/medical and linguistic anthropology, her current research addresses the roles of sacred landscapes and digital religious revival in the relationships between Hindus, Buddhists, and Bonpos who venerate sacred fossils, called Shaligrams.
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Researcher in Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster
An experienced urban planner and researcher, passionate about people-centred planning and creating places where people can be active and healthy. With experience in both practice and academia, Holly's work cuts across the boundaries to produce outputs with impact. Her knowledge stems across the fields of urban planning and public health, exploring how places can encourage physical activity and reduce inequalities. Holly also has a particular interest in children as users of public space and in child-friendly neighbourhoods, which her PhD research focuses on.
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Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
Holly Willis is the Chair of the Media Arts + Practice Division in USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she teaches classes on digital media, post-cinema and feminist film. She co-leads USC's Center for Generative AI and Society, which aims to create a space for artists, writers, journalists and others in the humanities to engage both creatively and critically with emerging forms of AI.
She is the author of Fast Forward: The Future(s) of the Cinematic Arts and New Digital Cinema: Reinventing the Moving Image, as well of Björk Digital, and the editor of both The New Ecology of Things, a collection of essays about ubiquitous computing, and David O. Russell: Interviews. She is also the co-founder of Filmmaker Magazine dedicated to independent film; she served as editor of RES Magazine and co-curator of RESFEST, a festival of experimental media, for several years; and she writes frequently for diverse publications about experimental film, video and new media, while also exploring experimental nonfiction and poetry. Her work has appeared in publications such as Film Comment, Afterimage, Los Angeles Review of Books, Variety, River Teeth and carte blanche.
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PhD Candidate, Palaeobotany, University College Cork
My research interests are in plant evolution and palaeobotany. Fossils are an important insight into how organisms and ecosystems have changed over time, with palaeobotanists assessing plant fossils in particular. My first research project studied fossils of early land plants to investigate the evolution of leaf organisation. For my PhD I am researching plant fossils following the worst mass extinction event in Earth's history, the end-Permian event, to understand the responses of ecosystem inhabitants to environmental change.
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Assistant Professor, Canada Research Chair, Executive Director of the Cold Regions Research Centre, Wilfrid Laurier University
I am Tier 2 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Remote Sensing of Environmental Change and the Executive Director of the Cold Regions Research Center at Wilfrid Laurier University. My research combines theoretical and practical approaches toward deepening the understanding of the small- to large-scale physical, hydrological, and cryospheric processes and interactions in the cold regions and water science. I am an active participant in the Laurier-Government of Northwest Territories Partnership, collaborating with communities in the Northwest Territories on issues like water quality, ice safety, and sustainable water management. I am an advocate for bridging the gap between science and policy, believing that scientific findings must be accessible to decision-makers. I have been collaborating with the Canadian Science Policy Centre since 2016, and joined the Board of Directors in 2020.
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Ph.D Candidate and Public Scholar, Concordia University
Hone Mandefro Belaye is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Concordia. Hone holds a Master of Arts in development studies from the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague and a Master of Arts in social work from Addis Ababa University. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in sociology and social work from Jimma University in Ethiopia.
Hone’s research examines the change and continuity in relationships among neighbours as their living space in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, changes from single-story houses to high-rise condominiums. His research is supported by a Vanier Scholarship from Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council and Wadsworth International Fellowship from the Wenner-Gren Foundation. Before Moving to Montreal as a Public Leadership Fellow at Jeanne Sauvé Foundation/McGill University in 2017, Hone was a lecturer in the School of Sociology and Social Work and director of Community Services at the University of Gondar in Ethiopia.
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Professor of Financial Economics, SOAS, University of London
Hong Bo is a Professor of Financial Economics at the School of Finance & Management SOAS University of London. Professor Bo received her degrees in Economics from Lanzhou University of China (BA), Renmin University of China (MSc), London School of Economics and Political Science UK (MSc.), and University of Groningen the Netherlands (PhD). Before joining SOAS in 2004, she was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen.
Professor Bo’s research covers topics in financial economics, including firm investment decisions under uncertainty, capital market imperfections, comparative financial systems, corporate finance, corporate governance, and the Chinese economy. She has published in internationally well-recognized academic journals, including Journal of Corporate Finance, Review of Finance (formerly European Finance Review), Journal of Banking and Finance, Economica, Regional Studies, European Journal of Finance, and International Review of Financial Analysis, etc.
Over the years, Professor Bo’s PhD supervision has covered various topics on the Chinese financial system and the corporate sector. Finished and ongoing PhD projects include investment behaviour of Chinese firms; seasoned equity offering of Chinese firms; China’s private equity market; corporate bond market in China; China’s overseas infrastructure investment; Interaction between African firms and Chinese firms in Africa; International activities of Chinese banks; and China’s peer to peer lending market. Professor Bo also has experience in academic management, having been associate dean and associate director for learning and teaching at SOAS University of London between 2016-2019.
In addition to her responsibilities at SOAS, Professor Bo has also actively engaged with the general public regarding knowledge transfer beyond SOAS by delivering public lectures for industries, providing executive training for officials in international organisations, and teaching for other universities both in the UK and overseas. She has also provided expert commentary for the media including BBC World News (Business Live; Asian Business Report), CNBC Europe Closing Bell, Sky News, TRT WORLD, RT TV, and CCTV dialogue, etc.
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Professor, Ted Rogers School of Retail Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
Dr. Hong Yu is a Professor of Retail Management at the Ted Rogers School of Management, Toronto Metropolitan University. With expertise in engineering, design, and business, her research focuses on management strategies for product, service, and customer experience transformations. Currently, she studies the shopping experiences of older customers to improve product innovation, inclusive retail environments, and service design. Dr. Yu has taught MBA and Master of Science in Management (MScM) programs, supervised over 70 PhD, MScM, and MBA students, completed 18 funded research projects, and published an open etextbook and over 50 peer-reviewed papers, and won awards for her research and educational programs in Europe and the U.S.
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Associate Professor, College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University
I am currently an Associate Professor at the College of Economics and Management, Huazhong Agricultural University, China. I obtained Ph.D degree in Agricultural Economics through the joint educational program between Huazhong Agricultural University (China) and Lincoln University (New Zealand). I works in the fields of Agricultural Economics and Development Economics, with a focus on topics such as agricultural productivity and efficiency, information technology adoption, rural welfare, and farmer subjective well-being.
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Assistant Professor of Business Technology Management, University of Calgary
I am an assistant professor of Business Technology Management (BTM) at Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary. I joined Haskayne in 2017 after graduating with Ph.D. in Business, Operations and Information Systems from University of Alberta. My current research interests include economics of information systems, data privacy and protection regulation, data portability, platforms, online information sharing, information and communication technology supply chains. I have been awarded several grants, including Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Development Grant and Insight Grant. My publications appear in prestigious journals such as Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Production and Operations Management; and have been featured in London School of Economics Business Review and The Globe and Mail.
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Assistant Professor of Marketing, University of Tennessee
Dr. Hoorsana Damavandi is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at University of Tennessee's Haslam College of Business. She has a Ph.D. in Marketing from Ivey Business School, Western University, specializing in quantitative marketing strategy.
Hoorsana is primarily interested in phenomenon-driven research that is inspired by and speaks to the problems and opportunities that interest business managers. Broadly, her work centers around understanding how firms deal with adversity in their upstream and downstream relationships. She works on the substantive areas related to product quality failures and price increases, and uses econometrics, spatial and network analysis, machine learning, and experiments in her research.
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Research Assistant at the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research, Swansea University
I am a research assistant for the National Centre for Population Health and Wellbeing Research (NCPHWR) and lead on the Born in Wales research project. My research interests consist of family health and wellbeing looking at what affects the future outcomes for children and families. I am an early-career researcher and have several publications in maternal and child health and wellbeing and contribute to various projects in public health.
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Assistant Professor, Computer Science, University of Nottingham
Horia A. Maior is an Assistant Professor and Multidisciplinary Researcher in the Mixed Reality Lab (https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/mixedrealitylab/), Horizon Digital Economy Research Institute (https://www.horizon.ac.uk/), Cyber-physical Health and Assistive Robotics Technologies Research Group (https://www.chartresearch.org/) and Brain and Physiological Data Group (https://brain-data-uon.gitlab.io/) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Nottingham. His research is focused on understanding challenges and opportunities when comes to responsible research and innovation in Brain Computer Interfaces, Human Computer Interaction, Human Robot Interaction and Trustworthy and Responsible AI.
Horia is involved in the wider research and innovation ecosystem and acts as a trustee at the Foundation for Science and Technology (https://www.foundation.org.uk/), and part of outreach and public engagement initiatives with the local community and acts as a trustee at Inspire Foundation Nottingham (https://www.inspirefoundation.org.uk/)
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Professor of Mathematics, Colorado State University
Hortensia Soto was born in Belén del Refujio, Jalisco, Mexico and raised on a farm in western Nebraska. She is the second of nine children and although her parents only have a third-grade education, all her siblings have a college education.
Hortensia has published in various areas of mathematics education including assessment, mathematical preparation of elementary teachers, outreach efforts for high school girls, and especially in the area of teaching and learning of undergraduate mathematics. Her current research efforts are dedicated to investigating the teaching and learning complex analysis, where she adopts an embodied cognition perspective and is part of the Embodied Mathematics Imagination and Cognition community. Since her days as an undergraduate student, Hortensia has mentored young women and promoted mathematics via summer outreach programs.
Hortensia is a Professor of Mathematics at Colorado State University and the President of the Mathematical Association of America.
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Assistant Professor in Finance, Cardiff University
Hossein joined the Accounting & Finance Section in January 2019. He received his MSc and PhD in Finance from Leeds University Business and his BSc in Computer Software Engineering. Prior to pursuing his MSc, he worked in financial industry for 5 years . Hossein's research interests include Cryptocurrencies and market microstructure. Hossein is the creator and founder of Cardiff University Bitcoin Database (CUBiD).
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Research Associate in Renewable Energy Engineering, UNSW Sydney
Hossein is a Research Associate at the School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering (SPREE), UNSW.
He completed his PhD in smart energy systems, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications, UNSW, Sydney in 2023, M.Sc in power systems and high voltage engineering, University of Tehran, Iran in 2015, and B.Sc in electrical engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran in 2013.
Hossein is currently collaborating on two major projects on the operation and control of domestic electric water heating systems: SolarShift (RACE for 2030) and Flexible demand trial (ARENA). His main research interests include big data analysis and developing data-driven solutions using machine learning techniques and mathematical optimisation theories for the planning, operation, and protection of smart energy systems.
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Lecturer in Business Strategy, Coventry University
Dr. Hossein Zarei is Lecturer in Business Strategy at School of Strategy & Leadership, Coventry University. In 2014, he was one of the six candidates that were awarded by the European Union the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate (EMJD) Fellowship for Industrial Management. He holds two PhDs, one in Management, Economics & Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano (2018) and the other in Industrial Management from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2020). He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK, and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from Coventry University (2021).
Hossein conducts research at the intersection of humanitarian logistics and sustainable supply chain management where he addresses the question: "How can humanitarian supply chains be more socially and environmentally sustainable?". His research results have been published in top supply chain and business management outlets and have been highly cited by other researchers. He has been collaborating with prestigious humanitarian organizations such as International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) as the project leader for several research and consultancy projects since 2015.
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Senior Data Analyst, Head of Data Science at Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI), Stellenbosch University
I am a genomic epidemiology researcher and Head of Data Science at the Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation (CERI) at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. I hold a PhD in Bioinformatics from UKZN, South Africa, a MSc in Applied Biosciences and Biotechnology from Imperial College London, and a BSc in Molecular Biology from Yale University. My expertise revolves around the use of phylodynamics in conjunction with epidemiological, geospatial and population-scale data to track infectious diseases. I co-lead the CLIMADE-Africa working group where I am reconstructing, responding to, and forecasting the transmission risks, patterns and outbreak potential of vector and waterborne pathogens on the continent, in the face of climate change and disasters, demographic expansion and increased human mobility.
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Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Southern California
I'm part of the faculty at the USC Marshall School of Business, in the Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial studies.
I study how the social conversation around new technologies helps or hinders their adoption. For example, I study the century-long efforts of making electric vehicles market viable. I also study how perceptions of authenticity around specialty products like high-end coffee and whiskey impact their markets.
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Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University
Founding Director, Moving Image Archiving & Preservation MA Program; Professor Emeritus, UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
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Senior Teaching Fellow, Music Management, University of Southampton
Senior Teaching Fellow, University of Southampton
Founding partner, TheWRD
Founding Member/Drummer, Billy Mahonie
I work in Education, in the Music and Creative Entrepreneurship space. I write and speak about my experiences as a working class academic in the Creative Industries and as an independent musician/entrepreneur.
I have a degree in French from Middlesex, an MBA from Westminster Business School and a Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning from University of Sussex.
Seeing my previous students flying high is a great source of pride.
I am a proud father and husband. I support Rochdale AFC.
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Alberta
Howard Nye is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta. He works primarily in the areas of practical ethics, normative ethics, and metaethics, and has related interests in political philosophy, the philosophy of mind, and decision theory.
One line of Howard’s current research concerns the ethics of collective action, including why individuals should contribute to projects that may do a great deal of good if enough others also contribute, and what contributions to potentially beneficial projects are most important to make. Much of his current research in this line investigates the desirability and feasibility of a just transition to a predominantly plant-based food system in Canada.
Another line of Howard's research investigates challenges to the common assumption that life is less of a morally important benefit to sentient beings who lack the intellectual abilities of typical human adults.
A third line of Howard's research investigates what it takes for an entity to have representations and goals in a sense that admits of genuine, underivative error and unfulfillment, with applications to the sentience and mental lives of various non-human animals, intellectually less able humans, and possible future artificial intelligence systems.
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Senior Research Fellow, Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing, Northumbria University, Newcastle
I am Senior Research Fellow in Public Policy working as part of a team in SWECW examining the health case for basic income and a broader programme of policy development aimed at creating a new settlement of the same scale and sustainability as that of the Beveridge-inspired reforms of 1945. My particular focus lies in exploring the economic and health economic impacts of public policies. A key example of recent work is Treating Causes not Symptoms: Basic Income as a Public Health Measure, which presents findings on the health and health economic impacts of basic income schemes.
I am a leading specialist in microsimulation modelling of tax-benefit systems and other applied microeconomic analysis and am Director of Landman Economics. In 2008-09 I wrote the original version of the tax-benefit model used by the Institute for Public Policy Research and the Resolution Foundation, which (following further revisions) has evolved into the Landman Economics Tax-Transfer Model (TTM), one of the leading tax-benefit microsimulation models in the UK.
Before founding Landman Economics, I was Chief Economist and Director of Research at the Institute for Public Policy Research from 2004 and 2008. My first job after studying for an MSc in Economics at University College London was at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where I had primary responsibility for the IFS’s tax-benefit model TAXBEN between 2000 and 2004.
Since founding Landman Economics in 2008 I have received over £2 million in funding from public and third sector bodies including the (Scottish Government, Welsh Government, Greater London Authority, Equality and Human Rights Commission, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Action on Smoking and Health, Oxfam and many others).
In order to conduct research, I have formed a number of multidisciplinary teams and I have a clear record of success in collaboration with academics at a number of institutions including the Open University, University of Bristol and University of Southampton.
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