IFS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Research Services Manager
Aisling works in the research services team, responsible for management of IFS grants pre and post award.
Aisling graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a BA in Economics and German. As a manager in the research services team, she is responsible for pre- and post-award management of IFS grants
Education
Bachelor of Arts Economics and German, Trinity College Dublin
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- Digital Production Officer
Alex joined the IFS in 2019 and works on publishing new research and developing digital channels for the IFS.
Alex joined the IFS in May 2019. He produces and edits the IFS podcast, IFS Zooms In, and leads on video production. His role also involves developing digital channels for the IFS and exploring new formats. He has previously worked on digital content and strategy for an online radio station and a community solar non-profit.
Education
BA History with a European Language, University College London, 2016
Amy is a Communications Officer who works on digital content and strategy, publications, external communications and press.
Amy joined the IFS in August 2020 as a Communications Officer, and assists the team with digital content and strategy, publications, external communications and press. Before joining the IFS she worked in a local library service and led communications for a local Mutual Aid group.
Education
BA English, University of Cambridge, 2018
Amy is a communications assistant who supports the communications team with digital content and publishing IFS research.
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- Senior Lecturer
- Research Fellow University of Kent
Bansi Malde is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Kent. Her research focuses on the determinants of child health and the role of social networks in developing countries. Her fields of interest are development economics, health economics and social networks.
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 2016
MSc (Distinction) Economics for Development, University of Oxford, 2007
BSc (First Class Honours) Economics and Econometrics (with study in France), University of Bristol, 2006
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- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
Bonnie joined in 2003 and is the Head of Communications, managing the communications team to ensure the research achieves a wide and enduring impact.
Bonnie is Head of Communications at IFS and joined the Institute in 2003. She is responsible for the Institutes' external communications strategy and has overall responsibility for the IFS website, press, public affairs, events, social media, publications and membership (individual and corporate). She manages a small communications team to ensure that IFS research achieves wide and enduring impact.
Bonnie is first port of call for public affairs and strategic partnerships and also manages the ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) at IFS, providing over £1m of additional funding for impact and engagement activities.
Before joining IFS, Bonnie worked at Help the Aged (now part of Age UK) and co-ordinated a wide range of events and engagement activities.
Education
Graduate Diploma Law, College of Law, 2007
BA Social Anthropology, University of Sussex, 2000
Carl, a Deputy Director, is an editor of the IFS Green Budget, is expert on the UK pension system and sits on the Social Security Advisory Committee.
Deputy Director Carl Emmerson has been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Carl is Deputy Director of the IFS, an editor of the annual IFS Green Budget and a Director of the Pensions Review. His research includes issues around the UK's public finances, and household retirement saving decisions.
He is also a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee, the advisory panel of the Office for Budget Responsibility, and the UK Statistics Authority's Methodological Assurance Review Panel. He previously served as a specialist advisor to the House of Commons Work and Pensions Select Committee.
Education
MSc Economics, Birkbeck, University of London, 1999
BSc (1st Class) Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1996
IFS Deputy Director Carl Emmerson responds to the announcement ahead of the Spring Budget of an increase to the lifetime allowance for pension saving.
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Professor of Economics
Carol is a Professor of Economics in the Department of Management and Imperial College Business School, London. She joined the Business School as Professor of Economics in 2007 and was Head of the Healthcare Management group from 2007-2010. More recently she has held an ESRC Professorial Fellowship in the School since 2012. She is currently the Associate Dean for Faculty and Research in Imperial College Business School.
Before coming to Imperial, she held appointments at the University of Bristol (where she was a cofounder and director of the Centre for Market and Public Organisation); at the LSE (where she was Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Exclusion 1997-2007); as Chair of the ESRC research grants board 2005-2009 and member of the ESRC Council 2005-9; as Advisor to the Chief Executive of the NHS 1993-4; as a member of the Royal Economic Society Council 2001-5 and as a member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society. She is a research fellow of CEPR, Europe's network of leading economists, and a Research Fellow of the Institute of Fiscal Studies.
Carol was awarded a CBE for her services to social science in 2010 and elected as a fellow of the British Academy in 2014 (one of only two FBAs at Imperial College).
Her research interests are the impact of incentives on the quality and productivity of healthcare, the impact of environmental factors on health, and the effect of market incentives on the production of public service. She has published was awarded the Arrow Award for the best paper worldwide in the field of health economics in 2011 and the American Economic Association 2016 prize for the best paper published in the American Economic Journal: Policy.
Education
PhD (Smith-Kline Award) Economics, University of York, 1988
PhD Courses Economics, University of Toronto, 1983
MSc (SSRC Award) Social Research and Social Policy, University of Oxford, 1981
BSc (Honours) Economics and Economic History, University of Bristol, 1977
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced his Autumn 2021 Budget and Spending Review on Wednesday 27 October. IFS researchers presented their initial analysis of the Chancellor's announcements on the public finances, spending on public services, and the tax and the benefit system today, Thursday 28 October at a livestreamed press briefing.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak responded to the OBR's latest economic and fiscal forecast on Wednesday 23 March. IFS researchers presented their initial analysis of the Chancellor's announcements on the public finances at a live-streamed press briefing the following day.
Job Titles:
- Professor Denise Lievesley - Green Templeton College, Oxford
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- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
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- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
Dermot joined the IFS in 2019 and is responsible for digital strategy and delivery across the organisation.
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- Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick
- Research Fellow in TAXDEV
- Research Fellow University of Warwick
Arun Advani will be holding this presentation at the following seminars at the University of Gothenburg (22 September 2016), University of Geneva (5 October 2016), University of Manchester (8 November 2016)
Arun is a Research Fellow in TAXDEV at IFS, working on issues of tax administration in developing countries, as well as a Researcher in TARC studying tax compliance in the UK. Previously his work at IFS focused on environmental taxation and energy use.
Arun is also an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick. He has a PhD in Economics from University College London. From 2011-13 he was an Associate Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, where he taught microeconomics.
Education
PhD Economics, University College London, 2017
MRes (Distinction) Economics, University College London, 2011
MPhil (Distinction) Economics, University of Cambridge, 2010
BA (First Class Honours) Economics, University of Cambridge, 2009
Britta is an IFS Associate Director, Associate Staff at the Department of Economics at the UC and Researcher at NIHR Obesity Policy Research Unit.
Britta Augsburg is Associate Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She is an applied development economist, with a particular interest in environmental influences on child (health) outcomes, how they interact with other inputs - such as nutrition and stimulation -, and how policy can be used to target improvements in a child's environment. She has 15 years' experience in design and implementation of complex evaluations in LMIC's, including India, Pakistan, Nigeria and Mongolia. Recent studies have focused on understanding both demand and supply constraints for poor households to improve their sanitation environment.
Education
PhD Social Protection Policy, University of Maastricht, 2008
Masters Econometrics, University of Maastricht, 2002
Propedeuse Econometrics, University of Maastricht, 2000
Elena is a PhD Scholar in the field of microeconomics including theoretical work and empirical applications in the study of industrial organisations.
Job Titles:
- Research Services Officer
Emily manages grants such as the Impact Acceleration Account, and coordinates funding proposals.
Emma is Head of Operations at IFS. She is responsible for the dissemination of research findings to academic and policy audiences.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
Francesca is an IFS PhD Scholar. She is currently an ESRC scholar at UCL, where she is undertaking her doctoral research in applied microeconomics.
Job Titles:
- Chief Economist at the Institute for Government
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- Events and Communications Manager in the Communications Team
Greg is the Events and Communications Manager in the communications team at IFS.
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- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
Helen is Deputy Director of the IFS and Head of the Tax sector.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Director, IFS Research Director
- Professor of Economics at University College London
Imran is Professor of Economics at University College London and Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the IFS.
Isabel Stockton, a research economist at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, said: "The response to the covid-19 pandemic has led to a sharp downturn in economic activity. It has also, rightly, prompted a substantial fiscal policy response, the cost of which will add directly to government borrowing.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
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- in 2023 As Office Administrator and Personal Assistant
- Office Administrator and Director PA
Kaitlin joined IFS in 2023 as Office Administrator and Personal Assistant to the IFS Director, Paul Johnson.
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- Press and Communications Manager
Kirsty is Press and Communications Manager. She focusses on disseminating the organisations' research to the media and on social media.
Job Titles:
- Head of Research
- Head of Research Services
Lizza is Head of Research Services and responsible for the development and management of the research grants portfolio across the organisation.
Matt is a part-qualified accountant and accounting student with the association of accounting technicians (AAT).
Job Titles:
- Business Psychologist and Former Head of Public Policy at Frontier Economics
Joined in 2023 after previously gaining experience with two other accountancy firms. She is currently studying towards the ACA qualification.
Mike is responsible for the continued development and management of the corporate membership and individual membership programmes within IFS.
Job Titles:
- Deputy Director
- Deputy Research Director and Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol
Monica is a Deputy Research Director and Professor of Economics at the University of Bristol, with an interest in Labour, Family and Public Economics.
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- Professor Emeritus at MIT
Paul has been the Director of the IFS since 2011. He is also currently visiting professor in the Department of Economics at University College London.
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- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
Robert is a Deputy Director. His work focuses on primarily on the labour market, income and wealth inequality, and the design of the welfare system.
Job Titles:
- Events Coordinator
- in 2022 As the Events Coordinator
Rozeena joined IFS in 2022 as the Events Coordinator, she ensures that a wide variety of events are marketed, organized and administered successfully.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
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- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
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- Member of the Saker Nusseibeh - Hermes Investment Management Team
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- Chartered Accountant
- Head of Finance
Slav is a chartered accountant and has been with the IFS since 2020. He trained at Mazars LLP and worked at Met Film as a financial controller.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Deputy Director
- Deputy Research Director
Sonya Krutikova is an Associate Professor of Economics at Manchester University and IFS Deputy Research Director.
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- Support and System Administrator
Stephen is the Support and System Administrator at the IFS.
Stuart is a Senior Economist working in the Tax sector, and focuses on analysing the design of the tax and benefit system.
Job Titles:
- Publications and Research Information Officer
Will joined IFS in 2023 and coordinates the process of recording and presenting outputs for both external funders and internal monitoring purposes.
Job Titles:
- Programme Director - Centre for Tax Analysis in Developing Countries ( TaxDev )
- Programme Director for TaxDev
Yani is Programme Director for TaxDev, and works with government partners and researchers on tax policy in low- and middle-income countries.
Zoe is Head of Data Services. She joined the IFS in 1998 as a researcher and moved into Data Services in 2011.