Terry is an industrialist, Chairman, non-executive Director, and business advisor.

He is Chair of the Institute of Export & International Trade, Talent Retention Solutions (TRS), and is an advisor to a number of companies.From 2010-17 Terry was the CEO of the Engineering Employers Federation (EEF) representing some 20,000 UK companies at the highest levels of government including sitting on a number of high profile Ministerial Committees.

During his tenure at the EEF he served, from 2010-1017, as Chairman of the Council of European Employers for the Metals, Manufacturing and Technologies industries representing some 230,000 companies at the top tables in Brussels and EU member state capitals.

Prior to joining EEF Terry was Managing Director of Ferranti Technologies which he transformed from loss making and decline into a highly successful and profitable organisation.

Terry is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and has a Masters degree in Political Economy and Economic History from the University of Glasgow.

Preston is Managing Partner and co-founder of Independent Economics.

He leads the organisation on all aspects of strategy, team leadership, and key client and assignment management across its global network.

With expertise across economics, policy, and political issues, Preston works substantively on all projects. He has written on and led projects on subjects ranging from macroeconomics, decarbonisation of industry, digitalisation, and international trade, through to geoeconomic and geopolitical risk.

Before co-founding the organisation in 2009 he spent ten years in industry on analysis, corporate strategy, business development, communications, and marketing.

Preston holds a BA and an MSc (Maitrise Sc. Ec.) in Economics with French from the University of Sussex and the University of Grenoble, and an MBA from Imperial College, London.

John co-heads both our Macroeconomics and Financial Markets team, and our Expert witness and litigation support practice areas. He plays a major part in all of our conjunctural and other economic analysis. 

He has a broad experience, having worked in academia, international and then national policymaking, and in investment banking. Before advising HM Treasury during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath, and co-founding the firm in 2009, John was Global Chief Economist and then Senior Economic Policy Advisor at Lehman Brothers. This followed almost twenty years at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he was successively Head of International Forecasting and Policy Analysis and Editor of the OECD Economic Outlook; Deputy Director for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education, and finally Chef de Cabinet to the Secretary-General. 

Prior to that he spent nearly ten years at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, and was also a Fellow of St. John’s College. 

John holds an undergraduate degree from the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and a doctorate from the University of Oxford. He has published widely.

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Dimitri co-heads our Macroeconomics and Financial markets, and Innovation & Sustainability work.

An internationally reputed economist, Dimitri advises governments, banks, financial institutions, NGOs, and other international organisations and corporations on sustainability, climate change, innovation, economic modelling, and clean urbanisation.

He set up the Wealth Economy Project at the Bennett Institute at the University of Cambridge, is a Senior Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics (LSE), Chair of the Wealth Committee for Capital Generation Partners, and a member of the London Sustainable Development Commission.

Prior to this he served as Head of Policy at the Grantham Research Institute at the LSE and Chief Economist for the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate.

He was also lead author on the ground-breaking Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change and worked at HM Treasury as Head of Economic Forecasting and Head of the European Monetary Union branch. 

Dimitri holds a BA from the University of Oxford and an MSc from the University of Bristol.

Silja co-heads the firm’s Innovation & Sustainability practice area. She is also a core member of the firm’s Macroeconomics and Financial Markets team and part of the Expert Witness and Litigation Support team. 

Silja is a key contributor to the firm’s bespoke research projects, and to the regular macroeconomic analysis. She has a particular specialisation in environmental and technology issues. Silja has produced an important suite of corporate briefs on the environmental impacts of a wide range of sectors and activities, many of which have been published by the Sustainable Markets Initiative, launched by the former Prince of Wales. 

Prior to joining the team, Silja was a Senior Investment Analyst at GLC Global Macro hedge fund, where she was responsible for macroeconomic research and market analysis, with a primary focus on emerging markets and FX. Before that, Silja worked for Lehman Brothers as an Emerging Markets Economist, focusing on Central and Eastern Europe. While at the bank Silja was responsible for macroeconomic forecasts and market analysis, leading meetings with the region’s policymakers, speaking with journalists, and contributing regularly to the weekly and monthly publications.

​Silja holds a first-class honours degree in Economics and Business Administration from Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, and an MSc in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics.

Based in the Netherlands, Dr David Skilling is the founding Director of Landfall Strategy Group (from 2011), an economic, geopolitical, and economic policy advisory firm. David advises governments, firms, and financial institutions in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, and writes widely on global economic and geopolitical issues. David served as Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade from 2011-15. Previously, David was an Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company in Singapore, as well as being a Senior Fellow with the McKinsey Global Institute. Before joining McKinsey, David was the founding Chief Executive of the New Zealand Institute, a privately-funded, non-partisan think-tank. Until 2003, David was a Principal Advisor at the New Zealand Treasury.

David has a Ph.D. in Public Policy, and a Master in Public Policy degree, from Harvard University, as well as a Master of Commerce degree in Economics from the University of Auckland.

Erik is an independent economist with more than 40 years’ experience in global economic policy issues, macro and financial markets. Since 2008 he has published one of the most widely read and quoted weekly financial markets columns, the Sunday Wrap, on current economic and markets issues. He is a frequent guest on TV programs covering financial markets issues, including Bloomberg and CNBC.

Most recently, Erik spent three years as Group Chief Economics Advisor at UniCredit, following a decade as the bank’s Global Chief Economist and head of research. Between 1996 and 2011 he worked for Goldman Sachs in New York and London, first as a senior economist in charge of Russia and Central Europe, then for five years as Chief European Economist with responsibility for the firm’s economic research across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Erik spent 10 years in Washington DC working for the IMF and the World Bank on economic reform programs in primarily Russia, Turkey and the Middle East as well as an international debt and financial markets expert on China and other countries. He started his career as an economist at the Danish central bank, and he taught European economics at the Copenhagen Business School for two years before leaving for Washington. Erik is now based in London and Berlin.

Dr. Kelly Culver heads our Resilience Practice Area. She has extensive experience across corporate, public sector, and nonprofit leadership, with a focus on economic development, national transformation initiatives, and board-level advisory roles. As the co-founder of Resilience Nexus alongside Peter Jones, she empowers leaders, businesses and investors to harness resilience as a core driver of adaptability, innovation, and sustainable growth.

With over 34 years of experience across 23 countries, Dr. Culver advises CEOs, companies and countries on navigating uncertainty, driving strategic change, and achieving long-term impact. She is also the founder of The Culver Group Inc, a global management consulting company, advising more than 500 clients and delivering resilience-based strategies to multinational corporations, SMEs, and industry leaders. She has partnered with global institutions, including the World Bank, United Nations agencies, and the Commonwealth, to lead national transformation initiatives across the Caribbean, Africa, and the Indian Ocean.

Kelly developed The Resilience Trinity, a pioneering framework that embeds resilience as both a strategic and economic advantage, enabling companies and countries to not only withstand disruption but also drive sustainable growth, innovation, and long-term transformation.

A sought-after keynote speaker, Kelly has presented at TEDx, the OECD, and the Duke of Edinburgh’s Emerging Leaders Dialogue and co-hosts Resiliency The Podcast. She holds a PhD in Strategic Resilience for Sustainable Impact from the Paris School of Business and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). A Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and executive coach, she is widely recognized for her contributions to resilience strategy, leadership development, and economic transformation.

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Simon Greenman has over 25 years of global strategic and operational expertise in artificial intelligence and digital innovation. He co-founded one of the first AI and internet companies, MapQuest. He is a partner at Best Practice AI, advising executives on AI strategy, technology, and governance. He played a pivotal role in the World Economic Forum’s Global AI Council, focused on the global adoption of safe AI, as a key contributor to their Board, C-Suite, Risk and Procurement toolkits for AI leadership. Simon is a frequent keynote speaker on the topic of AI and has presented at the BBC, Harvard Business School, Samsung, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO) and many other global organisations.

Simon spent over a decade as Chief Digital Officer leading digital transformations of PE owned directory companies and worked with brand companies like HomeAdvisor, Bowers & Wilkins, AOL, and Accenture.

Simon is deeply embedded in the UK’s startup scene as the President (Emeritus) of the Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of the UK and advisor to VC firms. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Computing and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Sussex.

Michael joined Independent Economics as an analyst in 2022.

He works primarily on the firm’s subscription products, researching and writing about the latest economic developments from all over the world. Michael also supports the firm’s bespoke research projects, covering a wide range of topics from specific-country analysis, through to tax policy and data privacy. Michael is highly numerate, with experience in econometrics and broader statistical analysis. He also contributes to the firm’s IT and business operations.

Prior to joining the IE team, Michael worked for Llewellyn Consulting on input-output analysis, and on a range of sustainability projects, where he researched and contributed to a number of reports. Before that he held a number of analysis roles in asset management, commercial banking, and market research in the UK and Asia.

Michael was brought up in Singapore, and holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) from the University of Exeter.

Dr. Anders Åslund is a senior fellow at the Stockholm Free World Forum and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. He is a leading specialist on economic policy in Russia, Ukraine and Eastern Europe. Dr. Åslund has served as an economic adviser to the governments of Russia and Ukraine. He is the author of 17 books. He was a professor at the Stockholm School of Economics and the founding director of the Stockholm Institute of Transition Economics. He has worked at five Washington think tanks – the Atlantic Council, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brookings Institution, and the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies. He earned his D.Phil. from Oxford University

Dr. Jay Bryson was the Chief Economist for Wells Fargo’s Corporate and Investment Bank between 2018 and 2025. In that role, Jay led a team of economists who provided analysis on economic and financial developments in the major economies of the world as well as forecasts of macroeconomic variables in those economies. Before assuming the role of Chief Economist, he was Wells Fargo’s Global Economist.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 1998, Jay was an economist in the Division of International Finance at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. He started his career as an assistant professor of economics at the University of Alabama. Jay has also lectured on international economics and macroeconomics at the School for Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and Georgetown University.

He is a member of the American Economic Association and the Charlotte Economics Club, and he served on the Board of Directors of the National Association for Business Economics. Jay received his BA and Ph.D. degrees in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Simon is the co-founder of Gold Collins, a crisis advisory business, and has a variety of chair, board and advisory roles with UK and international organisations.

After 12 years in banking at SG Warburg & Co and NatWest, he joined KPMG in 1998. He became UK Chairman and Senior Partner from 2012 to 2017, establishing a reputation as a leading champion for responsible business.

Simon is now a leader and advisor to various scale-up businesses, including Chairman of Decoded as well as Advisory Board member at Quantexa and Signal AI.

Simon holds a number of not-for-profit positions, including a NED at the Royal Air Force, Chairman of Resilience First, alongside roles with Cancer Research UK and Manchester University. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1986, having graduated from the University of Manchester.

Peter heads our Technology Transformation practice area. His expertise is gleaned over 25 years in the energy sector, working for an oil major and joint venture partners around the world. His current focus is in maritime technology and business transformation through delivering ‘digitalization and decarbonisation solutions’ for traditional and renewable energy clients. 

Peter has worked extensively on the strategic development and deployment of new technology in the energy sector, specifically robotic Marine Autonomous Systems (MAS). He has supported many pre-commercial developments of technology, both under and on the water, small and large. He is a member of the robotics committees for UKRI (Innovate UK Government) and is Industry Lead for NERC’s Net Zero Oceanographic Capability project, aiming to decarbonise the UK’s scientific fleet by 2035. 

He conducts technology R&D and M&A activity in the maritime sector for a variety of clients, holds a PhD in Marine Ecology from the University of Hong Kong and is a Fellow of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST).

Simon forms part of Independent Economics’ core advisory team, working across a broad range of macroeconomic and geopolitical issues.

Simon is Managing Partner of Altura Partners (www.alturapartners.org) which provides strategic and economic policy advice to top level decision makers in governments and companies in emerging markets. He has worked extensively on emerging markets including at senior levels in the World Bank in Washington DC and in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London with which he continues to be associated. 

He holds an MA from Oxford University and a PhD from Cambridge University.

Steve is based in New York. He is an adviser to a number of UK and international corporations, government agencies, and NGOs. He is also Chair of the United Nations Population Fund Association (UNFPA) Oversight Advisory Committee and sits on and advises several boards in both the public and private sector advising on strategic transformation and change management.

Prior to that, he was the CEO of Reach to Teach, an international organisation which partners with government and like-minded organisations to improve the quality of primary education in underdeveloped countries. 

Steve has wide-ranging senior level experience in international organisations and NGOs. From 2013 to 2017 he served as the United Nations Assistant General Secretary for the Office of Central Support Services in New York, responsible for the Secretariat’s multi-billion dollar global procurement budget and overseeing property management and major construction and renovation projects worldwide. Prior to that, he was Assistant General Secretary for Corporate Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat in London. He started his intergovernmental career at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where he served as Chef the Cabinet and Deputy Executive Director.

Steve holds an executive MBA from INSEAD as well as a first class honours degree in American studies and English literature, and an Honorary Doctorate from Keele University.

David Dodge is Senior Advisor at Bennett Jones LLP, a leading Canadian law firm. He also serves on the board of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, and Chairs the National Council of the C.D. Howe Institute.

During a distinguished career in the federal public service, Mr. Dodge held senior positions in the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the Anti-Inflation Board, and the Department of Employment and Immigration. After serving in a number of increasingly senior positions at the Department of Finance, including that of G-7 Deputy, he was Deputy Minister of Finance from 1992 to 1997. In that role, he served as a member of the Bank of Canada’s Board of Directors.

In 1998 he was appointed Deputy Minister of Health, a position he held until his appointment as Governor of the Bank of Canada. And in 2001 he was appointed Governor of the Bank of Canada. He retired in 2008. From July 2008 to June 2014, he served as Chancellor of Queen’s University. From 2009 to 2015, he was a member of the board of directors of Canadian Utilities Limited, ATCO Limited and the Bank of Nova Scotia.

During his academic career, he taught economics at Queen’s University; at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; at the Faculty of Commerce at the University of British Columbia; and at Simon Fraser University. He also served as Director of the International Economics Program of the Institute for Research on Public Policy. Mr. Dodge has been awarded honorary degrees from a number of Canadian universities. In 2009, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

A native of Toronto, Mr. Dodge received a bachelor’s degree (honours) from Queen’s University, and a PhD in economics from Princeton.

Sir Martin is President of Boeing Europe and Managing Director of Boeing UK and Ireland. He is also a non-executive member of the National Audit Office.

Martin has enjoyed a distinguished career in the British civil service. Starting in HM Treasury, he then held senior posts in Brussels and Paris before becoming Director-General for Economics in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). In 2010 he was acting head of the FCO, before spending six years as Permanent Secretary at the Department for Business, Innovation, and Skills. Most recently, he was Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Trade during the initial Brexit negotiations.

​Sir Martin has an MA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, a Postgraduate Diploma in European Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, and is a graduate of Ecole National d’Administration, Paris.

Saul’s over-forty years’ experience as a professional economist includes thirty years as chief economist at a number of financial institutions, including: National Mutual Ltd (at the time, Australia’s second-largest life insurance business); the Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ), one of Australia’s four large commercial banks; and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He has also served on a variety of government advisory panels in Australia, covering statistics, foreign affairs and trade, tourism, housing and the arts. 

In 2015 Saul returned to the island state of Tasmania, where he grew up, and is now based there. Saul currently serves on the Advisory Panels for the Australian Parliamentary Budget Office, and the Australian Taxation Office’s ‘Tax Gap’ Project; and is also on the Advisory Board of Jamieson Coote Bonds, a Melbourne-based specialist government bond fund manager.

​Saul holds a first-class honours degree in Economics and an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Tasmania. He also undertook the Senior Executive Program at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business in New York, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors’ Company Directors course.

Martin forms part of Independent Economics’ Sustainability & Innovation team.

Martin is Chairman of the Board of VAKT Global, a consortium of leading banks and energy companies building a Blockchain platform to digitise trade flows. He is an Independent Non-Executive Director of the London Metal Exchange.  He was previously a member of the Board of Directors CRISIL Ltd, the premier Indian credit ratings and data company. He served as President (CEO), Vice Chairman and Head of Content of S&P Global Platts from 2015-21 and as a member of the Operating Committee of S&P Global, the credit ratings and benchmarks company. Alongside fellow members of the Operating Committee, he developed a cross-company ESG strategy.

As President of S&P Global Platts, he led a major expansion of its coverage of the Energy Transition, including the publication of an annual thirty-year Future Energy Outlook as well as market-first prices for global carbon, hydrogen, low carbon oil, sustainable aviation fuel, guaranteed origin gas and power, and battery metals. Under Martin, Platts successfully launched Distro, an energy micro-grid, in partnership with the Port of Rotterdam. Martin also led Platts’ acquisition of an equity stake in Xpansiv CBL Holding, a leading Carbon offset and renewable platform. 

He has served as a Trustee of Chatham House, the Royal Institute for International Affairs. He has been recognised as a “Distinguished Alumnus” by Johns Hopkins University and serves on the Advisory Board of its SAIS Europe campus. He holds a judicial appointment as a Member of the Financial Services Upper Tribunal.

Previously he was Global Head of Energy at CME Group, the largest global futures exchange. Prior to CME he had a 25-year career in top tier banks, culminating as Global Head of Commodities at Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank. He became a Managing Director of JP Morgan Chase in 1995. He later managed Dresdner Kleinwort’s pioneering Carbon Trading business after the launch of the EU’s European Trading System in 2005, which was named Euromoney’s “Emission House of the Year” in 2006.

Martin received a BA at Balliol College, Oxford and an MA from the School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. He later completed an MBA at INSEAD, France.

Now based in Ottawa, Jonathan is an independent consultant. He is a Senior Advisor with the Ottawa office of Bennett Jones, LLP, a Canada-based international law firm; with the Albright Stonebridge Group in Washington, DC; and a Senior Associate to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, also in Washington, DC. In addition, Jonathan is a Distinguished Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Foundation and of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute; one of two Lead Advisors to the World Economic Forum’s International Trade and Investment Platform; and member of the Board of Directors of the Health Standards Organization and of the Advisory Boards of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, the World Trade Board, and the Central and East European Law Institute.

Jonathan’s distinguished diplomatic career for Canada has spanned law, economics, and trade, including as G20 Sherpa; Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the WTO; Ambassador to Japan; Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean at the IMF; Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to the Prime Minister; Senior Assistant Deputy Minister for the Department of Finance and Canada’s G7 and G20 Finance Deputy. He was formerly Canada’s Chief Negotiator on China’s WTO accession; chief counsel for NAFTA; and Counsellor for Congressional Affairs at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC. 

Jonathan holds a B.A. and LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and an LL.M. from Columbia University.

A former Deputy Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq, a Brigade Commander in Northern Ireland and Director General of the United Kingdom Defence Academy, Andrew is an acknowledged expert in global Defence and Security and the wider geopolitical challenges of emerging threat levels, conflict, post-conflict and disaster recovery and nation building.

He has served as a non-executive Director of a major UK Government department, been closely involved in three UK national Defence and Security Reviews and has worked as an Advisor and Ambassador to a number of international Corporations, Agencies and Organisations.

Andrew is a graduate of Cambridge University where he studied Languages and History.

Paul Greatbatch was a Partner & Portfolio Manager at Genesis Investment Management from 1994-2013, one the oldest specialist managers operating in Emerging Markets on behalf of large institutional clients. During that time his investment responsibilities included the CEE region, South Korea, Mexico, Brazil and Kenya. From 1990-1994 he lived in Budapest during the transition era, where he worked as an economics consultant and was one of the founders of Concorde Securities, Hungary’s leading independent financial firm. Previously, from 1980, he had been a US specialist at Merrill Lynch & Co, Dean Witter and Prudential Securities.

Since leaving Genesis in 2013, he has been a Visiting Fellow at the Department of Political Economy of King’s College, London where he gives talks and organises events on subjects related to finance and economics.

A resident of Hay-on-Wye on the England-Wales border, where he and his wife own a leading bookshop, Paul has been part of the team which restored Hay Castle and transformed it into a leading venue for the arts and learning.

Nick is the CEO and co-founder of the strategic advisory company, Gatehouse Advisory Partners and geopolitics lead. His focus is on working with governments, businesses, and civil society to identify and interpret critical geopolitical themes. Nick has a broad corporate background, having worked in Banking, management consulting, and corporate affairs. He also played rugby professionally (Wasps, Quins, and England).

Ian Harwood has over 45 years’ experience as a City economist, focused upon worldwide economic and financial developments. Educated at the universities of Bristol and Cambridge he began his career as stockbroker Rowe & Pitman’s first-ever economist and was subsequently Chief Economist of SG Warburg (1986–94) and Dresdner Kleinwort (1994–2008).

His work has been highly valued by institutional investors world-wide. Indeed, prior to ‘stepping-back’ from full-time work in investment banking he was voted Number One in the Global Economics and European Economics categories of the annual Extel and Institutional Investor surveys respectively.

Since embarking upon his subsequent “portfolio” career Ian has undertaken a wide range of economics-focussed, investment advisory, educational and charitable roles. He was for many years Economics Adviser at Redburn, a stockbroking firm which focussed exclusively upon the provision of research advice to institutional investors. He is currently External Investment Adviser to insurer MS-Amlin and the BAE Systems Pension Fund and is a Trustee Director of the UBS Pension Scheme. He is also the co-author (with three others) of “How to be a Successful Economist”, published by Oxford University Press in December 2022.

A Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists, he served on the Society’s Council from 2008 to 2017, playing a leading role in pushing for substantive changes in the way Economics is taught in British universities. He served as an employer representative on the Quality Assurance Agency’s Economics Degree Benchmarking Committee which reported in 2015. He also led the creation of the Society of Professional Economists’ Continuing Professional Development programme and is currently the Society’s Book Reviews Editor.

Based in Munich and Frankfurt, Michael is an independent consultant, working as Chief Economist for the multi-family office HQ Trust and as an economic consultant for other companies.

Michael worked for the German Council of Economic Experts, where he became Secretary General in 1998. In 2005 he left the public sector to become Chief Economist for DG Bank, and then in later years for DZ Bank and Dresdner Bank and Allianz. Michael teaches economics at Frankfurt University, and has written books on the eurozone economy and monetary policy. He broadcasts frequently, and has lectured at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt-am-Main. He is an honorary professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University. ​

Michael received his undergraduate degree and his doctorate from the University of Cologne.

Based in Sussex, Peter is a Fellow of the UK Trade Policy Observatory at the University of Sussex, and a director of InterAnalysis, a spinoff company of the University of Sussex that produces TradeSift software for analysing trade data and trade policy. 

Peter taught economics at the University of Sussex from 1974 to 2020, and is a visiting teacher at the College of Europe. He specialises in Brexit and EU and WTO affairs. He is interested in, and has written widely on, the relationship among the complex of policies on trade, competition, and regulation, including border carbon adjustments and software IP, as well as broader issues of regional economic integration. 

He has collaborated with lawyers and political scientists; has given evidence on numerous occasions to parliamentary committees; and has written reports for the European Commission, UNCTAD, and the World Bank. He has been involved in training work for the government in the UK and also in South Asia, Africa, and Central Europe. He is regularly interviewed by UK and international press outlets. 

Peter holds a BA and PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Based in Cardiff and London, Gerald is Hodge Professor of Regional Economy at Cardiff Metropolitan University, and Managing Partner at Cadwyn Capital.

Prior to that he was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Chief Investment Officer at Morley Fund Management, Director of the Institute of Public Policy Research, Chief Economist at Lehman Brothers, and Head of the General Economics Division in the OECD Economics Directorate. He has served as a member of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Economic Research Advisory Panel and chaired the Independent Commission on Funding and Finance for Wales.

Gerald holds BA and M.Phil degrees in PPE (Economics) from the University of Oxford. He was elected Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales in 2015.

Peter is a seasoned entrepreneur and business technology expert with over 30 years of experience in digital innovation and marketing. He is the co-founder of The Resilience Nexus, alongside Dr. Kelly Culver, helping organisations build resilience strategies and navigate uncertainty.

Peter has launched and exited multiple US businesses in the UK to scale in EMEA, including X+1 (acquired by RocketFuel), SearchRev (acquired by AKQA), and Analogue Analytics (acquired by Barclaycard).

He is also the founder of The Trusted Network, a private members’ club connecting investors, entrepreneurs, and C-suite executives to support and scale technology businesses. Through the Trusted Network he has raised in excess of £4m for pre-seed and seed stage technology businesses. His expertise spans digital strategy, innovation, investment and fundraising and advising high-growth ventures.

Peter holds a BSc (Hons) First Class in Computer Information Systems Design from Kingston University.

Russell is a macroeconomist, economic historian, and writer.

He was a macroeconomist and strategist in the financial markets for more than 35 years, occupying senior roles in London, Tokyo, the Middle East, and Sydney, working on both the ‘buy’ and ‘sell’ sides. He spent ten years at Lehman Brothers, where he was Chief Economist for Asia and Head of Foreign Exchange Research, and for a period was Chief Economist for the Treasury Department of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Most recently, he was Global Head of Fixed Income Strategy at Westpac Institutional Bank, and a partner in Llewellyn Consulting for seven years. 

Russell holds BSc and MSc degrees in Economics and Economic History from the University of Bristol.

Laurence Kotlikoff is a William Fairfield Warren Professor at Boston University, a Professor of Economics at Boston University, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, President of Economic Security Planning, Inc., a company specializing in financial planning software, a Research Associate of the Gaidar Institute, and a Research Fellow of the Goodman Institute. His website is https://kotlikoff.net/

From 1977 through 1983, Laurence served on the faculties of economics of the University of California, Los Angeles and Yale University. In 1981-82 he was a Senior Economist with the President’s Council of Economic Advisers. He has served as a consultant to many bodies, in the US and abroad, including the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the Harvard Institute for International Development, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and numerous finance ministries, central banks, and companies. In 2016, Kotlikoff ran for President as a registered write-in candidate.

Kotlikoff’s writings and research address personal finance, inequality, taxation, Social Security, climate change, investing, healthcare, deficits, and insurance. Kotlikoff is author or co-author of 20 books (his most recent is Money Magic), hundreds of professional journal articles, and a multitude of op eds and blogs.

Kotlikoff’s company markets economics-based financial planning software, including maxifiplanner.com, maximizemysocialssecurity.com, and analyzemydivorcesettlement.com.

Kotlikoff holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

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Alex is an experienced advisor to governments, central banks, and financial firms, focusing on how financial systems can become more resilient and support sustainable growth. In engagements in more than 25 emerging markets and across Europe he has also worked with international and EU institutions, connecting development finance and impact investors to local financial market participants.

Alex has held a number of academic appointments, including at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), Berlin’s Hertie School of Governance, and most recently at the Frankfurt School of Finance. He currently also holds an appointment at Bruegel, Europe’s top-rated economics think tank, and serves on the Sustainability Committee of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) in Paris.

Until 2016 Alex was the Lead Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) where he headed the strategy and economics unit for central Europe and Baltic countries, and prior to that was an official at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington.

Alexander has published widely on financial policies in the EU and emerging markets and holds degrees in economics from the London School of Economics and the College of Europe and a D.Phil. from Oxford University.

John is an Independent Consultant based in London: his consultancy Laburnum Consulting – Independent economic and geopolitical commentary (laburnum-consulting.co.uk) advises on economic and geopolitical issues. John holds a number of non-executive positions for NGOs, charities, and think tanks; he is also a school governor.

For most of his career John worked in the official sector, including spells as the Executive Director in charge of reserves management at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and as the Chief Manager, Reserves, at the Bank of England. He was also a director of the European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund, an advisor to the European Commission’s Working Group of Technical Experts on Markets, and an Associate Fellow of Chatham House. In the academic sphere he was a senior lecturer at the Macro-Economic and Financial Management Institute of Africa (MEFMI), a lecturer and technical advisor at the Bank of England’s Centre for Central Banking Studies, a visiting lecturer at the New York Federal Reserve and until recently a lecturer in Politics and Economics at St Mary’s University, Twickenham in south west London.

John holds an MA in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Cambridge and a Diploma in Business Studies from the London School of Economics.

Andrew in an independent business economist based in the UK, where he is a Senior Adviser to Cambridge Econometrics and a part-time Professor at Warwick Business School.

He worked with PwC as their Senior Economic Adviser from 2011 to 2018. Prior to that he served for five years on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), through the global financial crisis and its aftermath. Prior to his time at the Bank of England, Andrew held a number of senior positions as an economist in the business world: Chief Economist at British Airways; Director of the Centre for Economic Forecasting at London Business School; and Director of Economic Affairs at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).

Andrew holds a BA (Economics) from the University of Cambridge, and an MSc and PhD from the London School of Economics. He was awarded a CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in 2012.

Christopher Thackray is the Chief Advisor of Governance, Risk & Resilience at Ashurst Risk Advisory LLP. An experienced Chief Risk Officer with over 24 years in the field, he specialises in designing and building risk management solutions that strengthen organisational resilience and effective corporate governance. Christopher is also a Board Governor for the Diocese of Gloucestershire Academies Trust and an external contributor to Independent Economics LLP, providing unique perspectives on the future of risk management and resilience through the firm’s Risk Insight Series.

Based in Nîmes, Nick is an independent economic policy analyst.

Nick had a 30-year career at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Prior to that, he was a Director of Commodities Research Unit (CRU) in London, and taught economics at the University of Oxford, UK.

Nick held a range of positions in the Economics Department of the OECD. In the Country Studies Division his teams followed all aspects of the economies of several individual OECD countries. In the General Economics Division they covered economic issues affecting all countries: growth, trade, labour markets, competition policy, structural reforms etc. Nick made numerous individual contributions to the OECD Economic Outlook publication, as well as to many individual OECD country Economic Surveys and other reports. After leaving the OECD, Nick has worked as a consultant on a wide variety of economic issues and countries, from innovation policy to tax havens.

Nick holds a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry and a Master’s degree in economics from the University of Oxford.

Nick is an independent macroeconomist with 30 years’ experience, including 15 years in the UK Finance Ministry (HMT). Nick has a comparative advantage in all aspects of economic policy, financial markets, National Accounts and technical skills e.g. macromodelling. He is currently Special Adviser, Innovative Finance, to the Education Commission.

During his 15 years in HM Treasury, Nick undertook a wide range of activities, including originating, developing, and leading the technical discussion that led to the establishment of the International Finance Facility for Immunisation (IFFIm); developing the Treasury macroeconomic model and the economic and fiscal forecasts that it supports; and from 2008 leading the UK Treasury’s economic and fiscal forecasts through the global financial crisis.

Nick was then promoted to Director of National Accounts and Economic Statistics (NAES), and then Chief Economist & Director for NAES at the Office for National Statistics, where he led the transformation of UK economic statistics. Following that he was Chief Economic adviser for the States of Jersey.

Nick holds an MSc from Birkbeck College, University of London.

David is an Australian macroeconomist with a career in research, writing and teaching in the UK. He is Emeritus Professor of Economics, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, at Oxford University, and Director of the Ethics and Economics Programme at the Institute for New Economic Thinking in the Oxford Martin School. He is also a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) in London. From 1985 to 1992 David was Adam Smith Professor of Political Economy at Glasgow University.

David’s initial work was with the Nobel Prize winner James Meade in Cambridge; together they published some of the earliest research on inflation-targeting regimes. At the time of the global financial crisis, David was the Research Director of a European Union Framework Seven Research Programme that was analysing global economic governance. He worked closely with the CEPR to provide vital support for the UK Treasury, Cabinet Office and Foreign Office, in the run up to the G20 Summit in April 2009. After the crisis David convened an interdisciplinary group to study reform of the UK financial system, working within the Balliol College Interdisciplinary Institute. This led to a book called Capital Failure: Restoring Trust in the Financial Services, co-edited with Nicholas Morris, which was widely influential. More recently David played a significant role during Australia’s Presidency of the G20, providing senior Treasury officials, including the Secretary of the Treasury and Australia’s G20 Sherpa, with advice on Australia’s proposals for raising the global rate of economic growth. This approach required considerable sensitivity, since the Australian government was pro-austerity at the time. The proposals were adopted by world leaders at the G20 Summit in Brisbane in November 2014.

David’s latest publications include Keynes: Useful Economics for the World Economy, written jointly with Peter Temin of MIT, a book which places Keynes’ General Theory in its global context. He is currently writing about the history of Australia as a settler economy, and the reasons for policy successes there since Federation in 1901.

David holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Melbourne University, and an MA and PhD in Economics from the University of Cambridge.

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Peter is the founder of Meritus Consultants, a strategic communications consultancy that that advises clients on engaging with government, policymakers, and the media. He has worked extensively in the financial sector as well as advising companies, regulatory bodies, educational establishments, and individuals.

Before Meritus, he worked at a leading public affairs consultancy, Quiller Consultants, following a career in the media. He was one of the founders and Editor-in-Chief of Financial News and previously worked for the BBC on The Money Programme and BBC TV and Radio news. Before that he worked on The Independent newspapers, the Daily Telegraph, and The Times.

He is chair of the 21st Century Trust and previously served on the board of Salzburg Global and on the governing council of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation. He was also a trustee and investment committee member of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation and chair of the Oxford School of Drama.

Peter holds an MA in English literature from St Catherine’s College, Oxford.