Speakers

Abeer Shafqat

I have recently completed my PhD from University of Bristol and I am also a teaching associate at UoB. My research interests lie in the fied of devleopment economics, particularly in the formation of early human capital and gender inequality.

Lin Shao

Senior economist at the Bank of Canada. Research fields: Macro, Development and Firm Dynamics.

Rasadhika Sharma

Rasadhika Sharma is a research fellow and a PhD candidate in Economics at the Institute for Environmental Economics and World Trade, Leibniz University Hanover. She is part of the Thailand Vietnam Socio Economic Panel (TVSEP) project financed by the German Research Foundation (DFG). She obtained her postgraduate degrees in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (USA) and the University of Warwick (UK). Her research interests include migration, personality traits and climate change.

Cortnie Shupe

I am a postdoc at the Center for Economic Behavior and Inequality (CEBI) at the University of Copenhagen. I completed my PhD in Economics at the Free University Berlin and DIW Berlin Graduate Center. My research focuses on empirical labor, public and health economics and policy evaluation.

Iulia Siedschlag

Iulia Siedschlag is Associate Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin. Professor Siedschlag leads the ESRI’s Research Programme on Competitiveness, Trade and FDI. She has published widely in peer reviewed international journals and books, especially on international trade, foreign direct investment, innovation, productivity and economic growth in advanced and emerging economies.

Eva Sierminska

Sara Signorelli

I am a PhD candidate at the Paris School of Economics working under the direction of professor Eric Maurin. My research focuses on labour economics, migration and technological change, and I am affiliated to the PSE Labour Chair. From September 2019 to April 2020 I visited the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics. Prior to joining PSE, I worked for the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and for the World Bank.

Joana Silva

Joana Silva is an Associate Professor at CATÓLICA-LISBON. She has expertise in applied microeconomics, with particular focus on development, labor markets, international trade, and policy evaluation. Her research has been published in leading academic journals, including the American Economic Review, Journal of International Economics, Review of International Economics. She has over twelve years of experience in empirical work on policy-relevant questions. She spent most of her career at the World Bank, where her research agenda focused on (i) inequality, (ii) the impact of economic policies on employment; (iii) international trade and firm performance; and (iv) adjustment to economic slowdowns and crises

Stefania Simion

I am an applied microeconomist, based at the University of Bristol, Department of Economics. My research focuses on economics of education, gender economics and labour economics.

Bernard Sinclair-Desgagné