The review is being led by an interdisciplinary panel chaired by Nobel Laureate Sir Angus Deaton and is comprised of world leaders in economics, sociology, demography, philosophy, political science and epidemiology.
The panel and contributors
Angus Deaton
Angus is the Dwight D Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus and Senior Scholar at Princeton University.
The panel
 | Orazio Attanasio | Yale |
 | James Banks | Institute for Fiscal Studies and University of Manchester |
 | Lisa Berkman | Harvard University |
 | Tim Besley | London School of Economics |
 | Richard Blundell | Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London |
 | Paul Johnson | Provost, Queen's College, Oxford & ex-Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Robert Joyce | Director, Alma Economics & ex-Deputy Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Kathleen Kiernan | University of York |
 | Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg | Yale University |
 | Lucinda Platt | London School of Economics |
 | Imran Rasul | Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London |
 | Debra Satz | Stanford University |
 | Jean Tirole | Toulouse School of Economics |
Contributors
 | Daron Acemoglu | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
 | Arun Advani | University of Warwick, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Philippe Aghion | London School of Economics |
 | Bob Allen | NYU Abu Dhabi |
 | Ingvild Almås | Stockholm University |
 | Ash Amin | University of Cambridge |
 | Alison Andrew | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Ben Ansell | University of Oxford |
 | Orley Ashenfelter | Princeton University |
 | David Atkin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
 | Oriana Bandiera | London School of Economics |
 | Fran Bennett | University of Oxford |
 | Rebecca Benson | Policy Institute, King’s College London |
 | Pablo Beramendi | Duke University |
| Lisa Berkman | Harvard University |
 | Pascale Bourquin | Ex-researcher, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Richard Breen | University of Oxford |
 | Mike Brewer | The Resolution Foundation |
 | Jan Brülle | Goethe University |
 | Julia Cage | SciencePo |
 | Pierre Cahuc | Sciences Po and Centre for Economic Policy Research |
 | Alexander W. Cappelen | Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) |
 | Anne Case | Princeton University |
 | Sarah Cattan | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Lynn Prince Cooke | University of Bath |
 | Monica Costa Dias | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Nicholas Crafts | University of Sussex |
 | Jonathan Cribb | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Sam Crossman | Ex-researcher, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Janet Currie | Princeton University, the NBER, and IZA |
 | Jan De Loecker | KU Leuven |
 | Isaac Delestre | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Claudia Diehl | University of Konstanz |
 | Matthias Doepke | Northwestern University |
 | David Dorn | University of Zurich |
 | Bobby Duffy | Policy Institute |
 | Christian Dustmann | University College London |
 | Jan Eeckhout | Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona |
 | Laura van der Erve | Oxford Policy Management & ex-researcher, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Daisy Fancourt | University College London |
 | Christine Farquharson | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Simon Field | Skills Policy |
 | Emla Fitzsimons | UCL Institute of Education |
 | Markus Gangl | Goethe University |
 | Jane Gingrich | University of Oxford |
 | Giulia Giupponi | Bocconi University |
 | Claudia Goldin | Harvard University and the National Bureau of Economic Research |
 | Alissa Goodman | UCL Institute of Education |
 | Janet Gornick | Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY) |
 | Francis Green | University College London |
 | Rachel Griffith | Institute for Fiscal Studies & The University of Manchester |
 | Dominik Hangartner | ETH Zurich |
 | James Heckman | The University of Chicago |
 | Rachel Hesketh | Policy Institute at King's College London |
 | Kirstie Hewlett | Policy Institute at King’s College London |
 | David R. Howell | The New School |
 | Hilary Hoynes | University of California, Berkeley |
 | Stephen P. Jenkins | London School of Economics and Political Science |
 | Damon Jones | The University of Chicago |
 | Arne L. Kalleberg | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
 | Heidi Karjalainen | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Yannis Kastis | University College London |
 | Sari Pekkala Kerr | Wellesley College & National Bureau of Economic Research |
 | Wojciech Kopczuk | Columbia University |
 | Lucy Kraftman | Ex-researcher, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Sonya Krutikova | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Camille Landais | London School of Economics |
 | Peter Levell | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Margaret Levi | Stanford University |
 | Steve Machin | London School of Economics |
 | Lindsey Macmillan | University College London |
 | David Manley | University of Bristol |
 | Alan Manning | London School of Economics |
 | Colin P Mayer | Said Business School, University of Oxford |
 | Mariana Mazzucato | University College London |
 | Philip McCann | The University of Manchester |
 | Eamon McCrory | University College London |
 | Sandra McNally | University of Surrey |
 | Andrew McNeil | London School of Economics |
 | Helen Miller | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Heidi Safia Mirza | UCL Institute of Education and Goldsmith’s College, University of London |
 | Robert Moffitt | Brown University |
 | Enrico Moretti | UC Berkeley |
 | Alita Nandi | University of Essex |
 | James Nazroo | University of Manchester |
 | Agnes Norris Keiller | Ex-researcher, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Tim Obermeier | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Kate Ogden | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Claudia Olivetti | Dartmouth College & National Bureau of Economic Research |
 | Henry Overman | London School of Economics |
 | Ruth Patrick | University of York |
 | Barbara Petrongolo | University of Oxford |
 | David Phillips | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Angus Phimister | Ex-researcher, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Luigi Pistaferri | Stanford University |
 | George Ploubidis | UCL Centre for Longitudinal Studies |
 | Eric Posner | University of Chicago |
 | Ian Preston | University College London & The Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Carol Propper | University College London |
| Imran Rasul | Institute for Fiscal Studies and University College London |
 | Diane Reay | LSE and the University of Cambridge |
 | Pascual Restrepo | Boston University |
 | Dani Rodrik | John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University |
 | Emmanuel Saez | UC Berkeley |
 | Cezar Santos | Banco de Portugal and FGV EPGE |
 | Walter Scheidel | Stanford University |
 | Eldar Shafir | Princeton University |
 | Luke Sibieta | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Kate Smith | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Erik Øiolf Sørensen | Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) |
 | David Soskice | London School of Economics |
 | Judith Spirig | University College London |
 | Stefanie Stantcheva | Harvard |
 | Andrew Steptoe | University College London |
 | George Stoye | Ex-researcher, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | David Sturrock | Ex-researcher, Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Robert Sugden | University of East Anglia |
 | Andy Summers | London School of Economics |
 | Simon Szreter | University of Cambridge |
 | Imran Tahir | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Tiit Tammaru | University of Tartu |
![](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop_2x/public/2026-03/Michele-Tertilt.jpg.webp?itok=XR2FZXSn") | Michèle Tertilt | University of Mannheim |
 | Nicholas Timmins | London School of Economics, The Institute for Government and The King’s Fund. |
 | Bertil Tungodden | NHH Norwegian School of Economics |
 | Maarten van Ham | Delft University of Technology |
 | Philippe Van Parijs | University of Louvain, Hoover Chair of Economic and Social Ethics |
 | John Van Reenen | London School of Economics |
 | Frank van Tubergen | Utrecht University |
 | Essi Viding | UCL |
 | Sophie von Stumm | University of York |
 | Ross Warwick | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Tom Waters | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Tom Wernham | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Jasmin Wertz | Duke University |
 | Stuart White | University of Oxford |
 | Xiaowei Xu | Institute for Fiscal Studies |
 | Owen Zidar | Princeton |
 | Fabrizio Zilibotti | Yale University |
 | Carolina V. Zuccotti | European University Institute |
 | Gabriel Zucman | UC Berkeley |