Sam Bowles has taught economics at Harvard, at the University of Massachusetts and University of Siena. His books include Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution (2005) The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution (2012). He has also served as an economic advisor to Nelson Mandela and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
Wendy Carlin directs the CORE project. She is a Research Fellow of the CEPR, and is on the Expert Advisory Panel, Office for Budget Responsibility in the UK. With David Soskice she has co-authored three books:
Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain (1990),
Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006) and
Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (2015).
For more than a decade she was co-managing editor of Economics of Transition. In 2016 Wendy was awarded the CBE for services to economics and public finance.
Camila Cea CORE
Lisa Cook Michigan State University
Camila Cea
Trustee, CORE
Lisa Cook
Professor in Economics and International Relations, Michigan State University
Dr. Lisa D. Cook is a Professor in the Department of Economics and at James Madison College at Michigan State University. As a Marshall Scholar, she received a second B.A. from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Dr. Cook earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Among her current research interests are economic growth and development, financial institutions and markets, innovation, and economic history. As a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Cook worked on the euro zone, financial instruments, innovation, and entrepreneurship. She is currently Director of the American Economic Association Summer Training Program.
Samuel Bowles
Head of the Behavioral Sciences Program, Santa Fe Institute
Sam Bowles has taught economics at Harvard, at the University of Massachusetts and University of Siena. His books include Microeconomics: Behavior, Institutions and Evolution (2005) The New Economics of Inequality and Redistribution (2012). He has also served as an economic advisor to Nelson Mandela and presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
Wendy Carlin directs the CORE project. She is a Research Fellow of the CEPR, and is on the Expert Advisory Panel, Office for Budget Responsibility in the UK. With David Soskice she has co-authored three books:
Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain (1990),
Macroeconomics: Imperfections, Institutions and Policies (2006) and
Macroeconomics: Institutions, Instability and the Financial System (2015).
For more than a decade she was co-managing editor of Economics of Transition. In 2016 Wendy was awarded the CBE for services to economics and public finance.
Camila Cea
Trustee, CORE
Lisa Cook
Professor in Economics and International Relations, Michigan State University
Dr. Lisa D. Cook is a Professor in the Department of Economics and at James Madison College at Michigan State University. As a Marshall Scholar, she received a second B.A. from Oxford University in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. Dr. Cook earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. Among her current research interests are economic growth and development, financial institutions and markets, innovation, and economic history. As a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the 2011-2012 academic year, Dr. Cook worked on the euro zone, financial instruments, innovation, and entrepreneurship. She is currently Director of the American Economic Association Summer Training Program.
Richard Davies has held various roles in economic policy, research, journalism and the voluntary sector. Between 2015 and 2016 he was economics advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at HM Treasury, and before that he was economics editor of The Economist. He edited The Economist's guide to economics—Making Sense of the Modern Economy (2015). His research has been published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the Journal of Financial Stability, and he previously taught macroeconomics, and money and banking at the University of Oxford.
Peter Dougherty
Director, Princeton University Press
Ian Goldin University of Oxford
Roula Khalaf Financial Times
Ian Goldin
Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford
Ian Goldin is the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School. Ian previously was World Bank Vice President and the Group’s Director of Policy, after serving as Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Economic Advisor to President Nelson Mandela. Ian has served as Principal Economist at the EBRD and Director of Programmes at the OECD Development Centre. Ian has been knighted by the French Government and has published 20 books.
Roula Khalaf is Editor of the Financial Times. She was previously deputy editor from 2016 to 2020, overseeing a range of newsroom initiatives and award winning editorial projects and leading a global network of over 100 foreign correspondents. Before taking up the deputy editor role, Khalaf was the FT's foreign editor and oversaw the FT's operations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Before that, as Middle East editor, she launched a Middle East edition and led coverage of the Arab Spring. She joined the FT in 1995 as North Africa correspondent and before that was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York.
Richard Davies has held various roles in economic policy, research, journalism and the voluntary sector. Between 2015 and 2016 he was economics advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer at HM Treasury, and before that he was economics editor of The Economist. He edited The Economist's guide to economics—Making Sense of the Modern Economy (2015). His research has been published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and the Journal of Financial Stability, and he previously taught macroeconomics, and money and banking at the University of Oxford.
Peter Dougherty
Director, Princeton University Press
Ian Goldin
Professor of Globalisation and Development, University of Oxford
Ian Goldin is the founding Director of the Oxford Martin School. Ian previously was World Bank Vice President and the Group’s Director of Policy, after serving as Chief Executive of the Development Bank of Southern Africa and Economic Advisor to President Nelson Mandela. Ian has served as Principal Economist at the EBRD and Director of Programmes at the OECD Development Centre. Ian has been knighted by the French Government and has published 20 books.
Roula Khalaf is Editor of the Financial Times. She was previously deputy editor from 2016 to 2020, overseeing a range of newsroom initiatives and award winning editorial projects and leading a global network of over 100 foreign correspondents. Before taking up the deputy editor role, Khalaf was the FT's foreign editor and oversaw the FT's operations in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Before that, as Middle East editor, she launched a Middle East edition and led coverage of the Arab Spring. She joined the FT in 1995 as North Africa correspondent and before that was a staff writer for Forbes magazine in New York.
Nick Macpherson CORE
Suresh Naidu Columbia University
Nick Macpherson
Trustee, CORE
Nick Macpherson was Permanent Secretary of the Treasury for over ten years, leading the Treasury through the financial and wider economic crisis which began in 2007. Nick joined the Treasury in 1985, after training as an economist at Oxford University and University College, London, and working at the Confederation of British Industry and Peat Marwick consulting. He was Principal Private Secretary to Ken Clarke and Gordon Brown in the mid 1990s, and went on to head the public spending and tax sides of the Treasury. Nick is Chairman of Hoare's Bank, a Director of the Scottish American Investment Trust and a Visiting Professor at King's College, London.
Suresh Naidu
Associate Professor in Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Project: The Economy
Suresh works in political economy, economic history, and development economics, and is focused on the political organization of labour markets from historical slavery through modern migration. His work has been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He also writes occasionally for Jacobin magazine.
Margaret Stevens University of Oxford
Margaret Stevens
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Having taught a wide variety of economics courses to undergraduates studying PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), she is enthusiastic about CORE’s mission to teach economics in a social and political context, and to make economic modelling accessible to students with different interests and backgrounds. Margaret Stevens has taught at the University of Oxford since 1993, having been a schoolteacher earlier in her career. Her research interests are in labour economics and public economics, including theoretical models of labour markets and public policy issues relating to health, education and vocational training.
Nick Macpherson
Trustee, CORE
Nick Macpherson was Permanent Secretary of the Treasury for over ten years, leading the Treasury through the financial and wider economic crisis which began in 2007. Nick joined the Treasury in 1985, after training as an economist at Oxford University and University College, London, and working at the Confederation of British Industry and Peat Marwick consulting. He was Principal Private Secretary to Ken Clarke and Gordon Brown in the mid 1990s, and went on to head the public spending and tax sides of the Treasury. Nick is Chairman of Hoare's Bank, a Director of the Scottish American Investment Trust and a Visiting Professor at King's College, London.
Suresh Naidu
Associate Professor in Economics and International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
Project: The Economy
Suresh works in political economy, economic history, and development economics, and is focused on the political organization of labour markets from historical slavery through modern migration. His work has been published in leading economics journals such as the American Economic Review, the Journal of Political Economy, the Review of Economics and Statistics, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He also writes occasionally for Jacobin magazine.
Margaret Stevens
Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Project: The Economy, ESPP, Doing Economics
Having taught a wide variety of economics courses to undergraduates studying PPE (Philosophy, Politics and Economics), she is enthusiastic about CORE’s mission to teach economics in a social and political context, and to make economic modelling accessible to students with different interests and backgrounds. Margaret Stevens has taught at the University of Oxford since 1993, having been a schoolteacher earlier in her career. Her research interests are in labour economics and public economics, including theoretical models of labour markets and public policy issues relating to health, education and vocational training.
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