About PEP

Ann is Director of Policy Research in Macroeconomics (PRIME), and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Political Economy Research Centre of City University, London. Her background is in sovereign debt. Ann was one of the leaders in the Jubilee 2000 debt campaign, which succeeded in writing off $100 billion of debts owed by 42 of the poorest countries. Ann was also one of the few to correctly predict the credit crunch of 2007 in NEF’s Real World Economic Outlook (Palgrave 2003) and in her book The Coming First World Debt Crisis (Palgrave 2006). Her latest publication is ‘The Production of Money: How to break the power of the Bank’, published by Verso in February, 2017. She was recently awarded the prestigious Hannah Arendt Prize 2018 for political thinking.

Jonathan is Professor of Innovation & Knowledge Exchange and Director of Continuing Education at Oxford University, and President of Kellogg College. From 2004-2008 Jonathan was Director of Birmingham Business School and a member of Council at the University of Birmingham, where he was Professor of Management; from 1997-2004 he held the Sainsbury Chair of Management at Birkbeck, University of London where he was Head of the School of Management & Organisational Psychology.

From 1992-1997 he was a University Lecturer in Accounting & Finance at the Judge Business School in Cambridge where he was also a Fellow & Director of Studies in Economics at Robinson College and a Research Associate of the ESRC Centre for Business Research.

Jonathan is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, on whose Council he serves; Director of the Oxford Centre for Mutual and Employee-owned Business at Kellogg; a member of the Economic Advisory Panel for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra); and Chair of the Board of Trustees for UWC Atlantic College and a Council member for the UWC movement globally.

Magda is a Global Emerging Market Economist at Legal & General Investment Management in London, responsible primarily for macroeconomic analysis and investment strategy across global emerging markets. Before that, she was a senior economist at Goldman Sachs, where she led research coverage of central eastern european economies. Prior to that, she spent six years at the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, where she worked on crisis prevention and resolution, sovereign debt restructurings, development of capital markets, and issues related to monetary policy and sovereign asset and liability management.

Oliver is a Fellow of the Institute & Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) and the Chartered Insurance Institute. He has worked for over 25 years in the London insurance market and is the Senior Pricing Actuary for a division of a global reinsurance company. For over a decade he has had a strong interest in climate change, economics and the limits to growth and has spoken at numerous venues on these subjects. From 2013 to 2015 he was the inaugural chair of the IFoA’s Resource and Environment Board, one of the IFoA’s seven practice area boards. He currently serves on the IFoA’s Research and Thought Leadership Board which oversees their research programme. He is also a member of the Advisory Committee for the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP).

Nicolette is a policy, business strategy and sustainable development professional delivering lasting stakeholder value in diverse governmental, business, financial services and not-for-profit environments. Her achievements range from catalysing the declaration and delivery of a local authority’s climate emergency pledge to leading an influential study of the potential for a European currency.
Having spent the first part of her 25 year career discovering the inadequacy of her neoclassical dominated economics education and the middle part searching for better ways of addressing the complexity, unpredictability and connectedness of 21st century social, environmental and economic challenges, Nicolette has enthused and supported Promoting Economic Pluralism from its inception. Longing for a fairer, more sustainable and resilient economic system, she has been especially active co-developing its accreditation scheme, and looks forward to further enabling and ensuring PEP delivers its objectives and progresses its vision.
Alongside work, Nicolette enjoys walking in and around the landscape city of Bath and contributing to its musical and cultural life.

Orit is currently a Senior Lecturer for Strategy and Complexity at Regent’s University London, and Founder at Urbaniser app. Orit is a political economist with a deep curiosity for the inner workings of complex social systems. An expert generalist, she has worked in tech start-ups; corporate market research; peace-building NGOs; and innovative policy and military think-tanks. Having the opportunity to closely observe decision makers operating in messy, dynamic, and highly complex environments, she has focused her work on exploring the intersection between complexity science and effective operational design.

Henry has been a practicing economist and policy analyst for almost 25 years. He has worked on issues from international trade and environment to economic and environmental regulation design. He has always sought to draw on a whole range of economic and social science thinking and techniques from international political to behavioural economics.

He has particular expertise in using agent based modelling (ABM) having produced the first Government impact assessment using an ABM. He is now advising UK Government chief economists on building capacity to use ABMs across government.  He recently addressed the OECD on the policy application of ABMs.He also has expertise in institutional and complexity economics and is advising organisations on the implications for regulatory design and implementation.

​Henry is an internationally recognised expert in water policy and regulation but he also has knowledge of a wide range of environmental policy areas including sustainable consumption and production, climate change adaptation, industrial pollution and waste. He has worked in the public and private sector at the local, national and international level both in the UK and Australia.

He has also been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Evaluation of Complexity Across the Nexus, is a Fellow of the RSA and a qualified chartered accountant.

Before joining PEP, Nat worked for over a decade with NGOs such as Global Witness and the Rainforest Foundation tackling the real-world impacts of poor economics and politics overseas. He has supported local community leaders from Africa, South America and Asia take a seat at UN negotiations on a global forest carbon market, researched corrupt oil and mining deals in Congo obscured behind tax haven secrecy and investigated the mineral supply chains of America’s largest corporations.

His stories have been reported by Channel 4 News, the BBC, and the New York Times among others and have sparked government investigations or sanctions in the US, Canada and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

He has lived in France and Senegal and has degrees in history and international politics with a focus on international political economy.

His writing has appeared in Open Democracy, Economic Questions, Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, and – of course – The Mint Magazine. It is gathered here: www.earthriseblog.org. He tweets at @natjdyer.

Joanna Pope is a researcher with a focus on degrowth and ecocriticism. She is based at Trust in Berlin, where she produced a lecture series comparing post-growth and left ecomodernist proposals and strategies as part of her research residency, and is now developing a video series explaining current debates on pathways for social-ecological transformation, from geoengineering to working time reduction. Joanna previously studied comparative literature at Freie Universität Berlin, where she now studies international political economy. She is also a contributing editor at Uneven Earth.

Starting at local newspaper in print design (also completing the NCTJ journalism course) Steve is a freelance web designer and developer with ten years experience both in-house and agency side. Steve has designed and built web and digital projects for clients ranging from start-ups to internationally known brands like Dell, Regus and Pandora.

Steve has built everything from simple blogs to large ecommerce sites and specialises in interactive content and web apps.​

Outside of work Steve designs and sells t-shirts, reads anything connected with politics and economics and avoids driving whenever possible.

Trevor has, for thirty years, reported and commented on regulation, markets and technology in a range of industries. Much of his career focus has been on the energy sector where he founded Utility Week, provided commentary through broadcast media and led communications at the energy regulator, Ofgem.

He has an extraordinary combination of experiences that inform his editorial approach. Since acquiring a doctorate in medical science and subsequent research positions including Guy and St Thomas’ Medical School, he has been a published professional musician and an exhibiting artist and illustrator before and while forging a reputation as a writer, editor and a communicator in the broadest sense.

He has written extensively on medicine (as editor of the Medical Research Council award-winning MRC News). As a freelance writer and consultant he advises global players in engineering, finance, IT and petrochemicals on communications and has edited the International Desalination Association’s quarterly publication and website.

He is managing editor and a founding director of The Water Report which has become the established leader in reporting and analysis on regulation and policy in the UK water sector.

Numa is a magazine designer with more than 30 years’ experience of working on prestigious B2B titles. Since taking voluntary redundancy 13 years ago, she has built up a busy and successful freelance business, working both in-house and from my home studio for both weekly and monthly magazines. In this time, she has also been lucky enough have three independent magazine launches and be involved in several redesigns. She has worked for clients such as Reed Business Publishing, DVV Media and Noble House Media and as well as smaller independent publishers.

Daphne Davies has worked as a journalist and development consultant for 30 years, in the not-for profit, governmental, and think-tank fields. She started work as a printer in the UK, USA and Ecuador. When she returned to the UK, she was employed as a press officer for various organisations, including Amnesty International, and the Labour Research Department.

In the 1990s, she moved to Brussels to work for the international trade union movement, followed by work with WWF, the United Nations, the European Commission (mainly in social and economic policy) and a think tank: the European Policy Centre.

Since returning to the UK in 2010 she has worked with the Club of Rome, the European Commission, and as a freelance journalist, and set up a project to publicise the situation of civil society in Least Developed Countries.

She graduated in Philosophy and Theology (!) from Nottingham University, received an M.Litt. in Moral Philosophy from Glasgow University, and a Diploma in Social Administration from the LSE. Her current passions are climate change, sustainable development, social and economic policy and trade and development.

When not busy with these, she enjoys walking, playing music (violin and piano) and has recently started making patchworks and quilts.

Somjeeta is an Undergraduate student at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) studying BSc Politics and Economics. She is also completing the Chartered Institute of Management Accounting (CIMA) degree in order to gain a better understanding about the world of finance. Having a keen interest in the field of Macroeconomics, International Political Economy, International Trade and Development Economics, she has co-authored an Undergraduate Research Paper on The Economic Consequences of Crime in Brazil (available on Somjeeta Chatterjee on ResearchGate). This was presented at the LSE’s prestigious Amartya Sen Club. Moreover, she has been running an online blog on current affairs since 2016, as well as contributing to online media platforms such as Medium. Having interned at the UK Ministry of Defence, Institute of Economic Affairs, LSE Economics Society alongside being the Student Ambassador for the LSE, she aims to embed her experience into her work as the Research and Communications Assistant at the PEP.

Madeleine is a second year Accounting & Finance student at the London School of Economics. She has actively taken alternative modules in Sustainable Development and Applied Environmental Economics in order to diversify her knowledge of economics. As treasurer of the Eco Society, Madeleine participates in the campaign to divest the LSE from investing in fossil fuels, and helps coordinate speaker events.