Christopher Adam is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Oxford. He is Lead Academic for Tanzania for the International Growth Centre (IGC) and a Visiting Scholar at the Research Department of the IMF. His academic research focuses on the macroeconomics of low-income countries, particularly those of sub-Saharan Africa. He was an advisor in the Policy Division of the Department for International Development (DFID) from 2003 to 2007 and represented DFID as Vice Chair of the Board of the African Economic Research Consortium from 2006-16. He serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics.

Abi Adams is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. She was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Cowles Foundation, Yale University, which she held after finishing her doctorate at the University of Oxford in 2014. Her research aims to create a tight connection between econometrics and economic theory, typically in relation to topics in consumer choice, behavioural economics, and labour economics. She holds an ESRC Future Research Leaders award in relation to work on Zero Hours Contracts. Her research has been published in leading international journals including the American Economic Review, quoted in House of Lords debate and featured in the Financial Times, Bloomberg News, and other leading media outlets.

Alison Gomm has an MA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford. She has been Production Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy since volume 4 and has thus experienced the changes made in recent years by the internet and other advances in technology through the impact they have had on publishing in general and in the production of this journal in particular. While she has no formal training in economics, her imagination is stimulated by such concepts as the prisoner’s dilemma, the Keynesian beauty contest, and the market for lemons.

Dieter is an economist specialising in utilities, infrastructure, regulation and the environment, and concentrating on the energy, water, communications and transport sectors primarily in Britain and Europe. Dieter is an Official Fellow in Economics at New College, Oxford, Professor of Energy Policy at the University of Oxford and Professorial Research Fellow of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. Yale University Press published his latest book- Natural Capital: Valuing the Planet in May 2016, and The Carbon Crunch, in 2015.

Cameron Hepburn is a professor of environmental economics at the University of Oxford, based at the Smith School and the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, and is also Professorial Research Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics and a Fellow of New College, Oxford.

Colin Mayer is the Peter Moores Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford. He is a Professorial Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford and an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and St Anne’s College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the European Corporate Governance Institute, and the Royal Society of Arts. He is a member of the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal, the UK Government Natural Capital Committee and the International Advisory Board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India.

Ken Mayhew is Emeritus Professor of Education and Economic Performance at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow in Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford. Currently he holds an honorary chair at Maastricht University and is a member of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body. Ken’s research is predominately in labour economics, employment relations and education economics.

Alex is the Otto Poon Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford. His research interests focus on matching markets, market design, auctions, networks, and environmental economics.