Research Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School Matthew Fisher-Post is a Research Fellow working with Anders Jensen on progressivity and development in the long-run. Matthew has worked at the United Nations in Rome and Mexico City, the Inter-American Development Bank in Panama, Médecins du Monde in Buenos Aires, and NORC at the University of Chicago. He earned a BA from Dartmouth College, an MPA from Cornell University, and is a Fulbright laureate and PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics.
Associate Professor, Health Economics, University of Oxford Mara is an Associate Professor at the Health Economics Research Centre in the University of Oxford. She holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy; an MSc in Economics from the University of Glasgow; a PhD in Economics from the University of Dundee; and a Doctorate in Economics from the University Milano-Bicocca, Italy. Mara’s research contributes to two complementary aspects of the health economics discipline. The first aspect relates to investigations of economic-driven inequalities in health outcomes and healthcare utilisation, through the statistical and econometric analysis of large and complex observational survey data and linked healthcare administrative datasets, in order to inform clinical practice and wider policies to reduce inequitable differences in people’s health status. The second aspect refers to the economic evaluations (for example, cost-effectiveness analysis) of health treatments/healthcare delivery models alongside randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in order to identify those treatments/programmes that represent good value for money in a healthcare system which increasingly is under financial strain. The development of a more equitable and efficient healthcare sector is therefore an important perspective that underpins all of her economic research across several disease areas. She is particularly interested in the economics of mental health, especially in children and young people, as well as the analysis of health-related quality of life in large multi-country surveys. In addition, she has recently developed an interest in behavioural economics. She is currently engaged in several projects in these areas, which are funded by the UK National Institute for Health and Care Research and the EuroQol Foundation.
Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies, Brunel University London Marco-Benoît Carbone is a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Brunel University, London. His interdisciplinary research revolves around the social and mediated dynamics of identity-making. He authored the monograph 'Geographies of Myth and Places of Identity' (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022) about heritage and identity in South Italy and is currently carrying out research projects on regional and transnational Italian identities. His areas of expertise include the dimension of play and games research. His recent study on Super Mario focuses on ethnicity and character creation in the cultural industries: Carbone, M.B. (2022) 'Olive Face, Italian Voice: Constructing Super Mario as an Italian-American' (1981–1996). Cinergie, 11(22), 127–144. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2280-9481/15824
Associate Professor in International Relations, UCL I am originally from Cardiff in South Wales of British and Syrian heritage. My undergraduate degree is in Politics and Modern History from Brunel University. I have researched for an MP in the House of Commons, and a U.S. Senator in the United State Senate in Washington, D.C. I received my M.A. in Political Science from University at Buffalo and my PhD in Political Science from Binghamton University. I previously worked in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. My research examines the determinants and consequences of human rights violations.
