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.

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.

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.

Based in Basel, Philip is Visiting Lecturer at the University of Basel and Visitor at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London.

Philip was previously Deputy Head of the Monetary and Economic Department and a member of Senior Management of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), which he joined in 1989. Between 1976 and 1989, he held various positions, including Head of Division in the Economics Department, at the OECD in Paris. In 1985–86 he was a visiting scholar at the Bank of Japan.

Philip holds a BA from the University of Cambridge and a PhD from Harvard University, where he was a Teaching Fellow.

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.