Project Team

The Review is led by Professor Sir Christopher Pissarides with a leading interdisciplinary team of academics and policy experts.

 

  • Sir Christopher Pissarides – Sir Christopher Pissarides is the Regius Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics. Chris was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on labour market frictions and technology.

  • Dr Abigail Gilbert – Abby is Director of Praxis at the Institute for the Future of Work and IFOW’s lead for the Review. She completed her PhD at Manchester in 2015 and has since worked on various research projects in think tanks and the civil service.

  • Anna Thomas – Anna is the Director of the Institute for the Future of Work. She was formerly a barrister specialising in employment law and appointed to the Counsel to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Anna was Head of Policy for the Future of Work Commission.

  • Professor Jolene Skordis – Professor Jolene Skordis is a health and development economist. She is Deputy Director of UCL’s Institute for Global Health and Director of UCL’s Centre for Global Health Economics.

  • Professor James Hayton - Professor James Hayton is a researcher at Warwick Business School. He was previously Dean of the School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University.

  • Professor Mauricio Barahona – Mauricio is Professor in Biomathematics and Director of the Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare at Imperial College London. He works on mathematical and computational methods for the analysis of biological, socio-economic and engineering networked systems.

  • Dr Jonathan M. Clarke - Jonathan is a clinician and academic in the Centre for Mathematics of Precision Healthcare at Imperial College London. His work applies network analysis to examine how health data may be used to address health inequality.

  • Dr Bertha Rohenkohl – Bertha is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for the Future of Work. Bertha holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Sheffield and does research on various topics of inequality, social mobility and labour economics.

  • Magdalena Soffia

    Dr Magdalena Soffia - Magdalena focuses on job quality, capabilities, working age and wellbeing research. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge.

  • Hong Yu Liu – Hong is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Warwick Business School, focussing on understanding decisions which impact the use of automation technologies at the firm level. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Cambridge.

  • Jiyuan Zheng – Jiyuan is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Imperial College London, focusing on the relationship between work and wellbeing. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Southampton.

  • Kester Brewin – Kester is Senior Communications Manager at the Institute for the Future of Work. He is an author of a number of works of non-fiction in the field of technology, and has written regularly for the national education press.

 

Steering Group

The Review is overseen by an expert steering group from across the fields of academia, industry and civil society.

 

  • Sir Christopher Pissarides (Regius Professor of Economics at LSE)

  • Naomi Climer CBE (Institute for the Future of Work and former President of the Institute of Engineering and Technology)

  • Mark Franks (Nuffield Foundation)

  • Professor Jolene Skordis (UCL)

  • Professor John van Reenen (LSE)

  • Anna Leach (Deputy Chief Economist, CBI)

  • Dr Jennifer Dixon CBE (Chief Executive - The Health Foundation)

  • Hetan Shah (Chief Executive, British Academy)

  • Professor Lynda Gratton (London Business School)

  • Professor Philip McCann (Alliance Manchester Business School)

  • Kate Bell (TUC)

  • Mohammad Chowdhury (Institute for the Future of Work)

  • Adrian Pabst (NIESR)

  • Jude Hillary (NFER)

  • Isabel Berwick (Financial Times)

  • Professor Lilian Edwards (Newcastle University)

  • Jon Hall (Bank of England Finance Policy Committee)

  • Professor Henry Overman (LSE)

 

“We established the Nuffield Foundation’s Strategic Fund to encourage ambitious, multi-disciplinary projects that would re-frame the social policy agenda in the coming decades, with a focus on increasing well-being and opportunity for the most disadvantaged.

The Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing will do this through an innovative approach that will identify how best to secure and sustain people’s work and well-being in the future. Technological advances are potentially hugely beneficial for people and society, but only if we identify ways to ensure such benefits are equitably distributed and to mitigate negative consequences.”

Tim Gardam, Chief Executive of the Nuffield Foundation