Grace Blakeley is a research Fellow on the Commission on Economic Justice at the progressive policy think tank IPPR. She specialises in macroeconomic policy, with a particular focus on finance.
Francesca Bria is the chief technology and digital innovation officer for the City of Barcelona. She is the founder of the Decode Project.
Matthew Brown is the leader of Preston City Council. He has been widely credited as the driving force behind the ‘Preston model’, a pioneering grassroots economic initiative promoting local cooperatives and networks.
Rob Calvert Jump is a lecturer in economics at the University of West England, teaching quantitative methods and macroeconomics. His research focuses on macroeconomic policy, corporate governance and ownership reform, using New Keynesian frameworks, and he has undertaken work for the British Labour Party in this area.
Barry Gardiner has been Labour MP for Brent North since 1997. In addition, he is currently the shadow secretary of state for international trade and shadow minister for international climate change.
Joe Guinan is a senior fellow at the Democracy Collaborative and executive director of the Next System Project. With a decade of experience in international economics, trade policy, global agriculture, and food security, he is a frequently cited expert on economic development in major news media including the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and BBC News.
Thomas M. Hanna is director of research at the Democracy Collaborative. He is the author of Our Common Wealth: The Return of Public Ownership in the United States and has published in popular and academic periodicals, including the New York Times, OpenDemocracy and the Independent.
Ted Howard is an author as well as founder and executive director of the Democracy Collaborative. He is known for his work on the ‘Cleveland model’, which redirects local spending for community wealth through the use of worker cooperatives.
Matthew Jackson is the William D. Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute, and a senior fellow of CIFAR.
Antonia Jennings is policy and public affairs manager at the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. She was previously head of engagement at Economy (ecnmy.org), a charity that works to empower citizens to engage with economic narratives, thus driving the democratization of economic decisions.
Costas Lapavitsas is professor of economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is a columnist for the Guardian and founder of Research on Money and Finance (RMF), an international network of political economists focusing on money, finance and the evolution of contemporary capitalism.
Neil McInroy is the chief executive of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), a not-for-profit ‘think–do tank’ that works with a diverse range of regeneration and economic development practitioners and community members, with a focus on developing policy grounded in real-life problems.
Johnna Montgomerie is a senior lecturer in economics at Goldsmiths, University of London and the deputy director of the Political Economy Research Centre.
Özlem Onaran is professor of economics at the University of Greenwich and the director of the Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre.
Ann Pettifor is the director of Prime (Policy Research in Macroeconomics), an honorary research fellow at City University, and a fellow of the New Economics Foundation. She has an honorary doctorate from Newcastle University. In 2015 she was invited by Jeremy Corbyn onto the economic advisory board of the British Labour Party.
J. Christopher Proctor is the pluralist economics associate at Oikos International, an international student-driven organisation for sustainability in economics and management. He is an active organiser with Rethinking Economics and co-editor of the forthcoming book Rethinking Economics: An Introduction to Pluralist Economics.
Luke Raikes is a senior research fellow at the progressive policy think-tank IPPR, where he leads the work on the UK’s regional economies and develops industrial strategy for the North. He has been a councillor on Manchester City Council since 2012.
Prem Sikka is professor of accounting at the University of Sheffield and emeritus professor of accounting at the University of Essex. His research largely focuses on the ‘dark side of capitalism’, including issues to do with corporate abuse, predatory capitalism, fraud, and wealth inequality.
Nick Srnicek is a lecturer in digital economy at King’s College London. He is the author of Platform Capitalism and co-author of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World without Work.
Guy Standing is professor of development studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and co-founder of the Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN), an NGO promoting basic income as a right. He was previously director of the Socio-Economic Security Programme of the International Labour Organisation.
Simon Wren-Lewis is currently professor of economic policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and emeritus fellow of Merton College. He has advised HM Treasury, the Bank of England, and the Office for Budget Responsibility, and has written extensively on macroeconomic policy on his blog mainlymacro.blogspot.com.