I am Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics and in the Social Research Institute at University College London; and Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and at IZA Bonn. I am also Associate Editor at the Journal of Health Economics (the top journal in health economics), Trustee at the Foundation Years Information and Research, and scientific adviser of the Lancet Commission for Gender-Based Violence and Maltreatment of Young People. My research areas of interest are health economics, the economics of human development, and biology and economics. My research draws on both the biomedical and the social sciences with the aim of understanding the developmental origins of health inequalities, the role of child development as input in the production of lifecycle health and the behavioral and biological pathways through which early life shocks, investments and policies affect well-being throughout the lifecourse. I often use novel sources of data, such as biomarkers (ranging from fetal ultrasound scans to genetic markers), combined with linked administrative records and survey data. I have studied several interventions, such as the iconic Perry Preschool, Abecedarian and Nurse Family Partnership programs in the United States; and large-scale programmes such as Sure Start, the Family Nurse Partnership and Universal Health Visiting in England, and Seguro Popular in Mexico. Most of my work focuses on US and UK, however I have also worked on LMICs such as Colombia, India, Mexico and more recently Ecuador. I have published on this topic in top journals in different disciplines, such as Science, PNAS, Pediatrics, the Economic Journal, the Journal of Public Economics, the Journal of Econometrics and Lancet. My research has been supported among others by the NIH, H2020, ERC, Nuffield Foundation, Health Foundation, British Academy. My work has been mentioned among others in the New York Times, Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and discussed in the British Parliament. In 2019 I was awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics (for my project on “Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Universal Health Visiting in UK”), which “recognises the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising”; and the Nick Hales Award from the DOHaD society, for a “young and emerging investigator who has made an outstanding scientific contribution to the DOHaD field”. I am also the PI of a 5-year ERC Consolidator Award from the European Research Council (SH1 Economics Panel) for my project “The Developmental Origins of Health: Biology, Shocks, Investments, and Policies”. I rank among the top 3% Female Economists, Last 10 Years Publications, and the top 5% Economists, Last 10 Years Publications – only considering my publications in economics. I hold a PhD in Economics from the University of Essex. Prior to joining UCL, I was a Post-Doctoral Scholar (under the mentorship of Nobel Prize Winner James Heckman) and then an Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago. My research areas of interest are health economics, the economics of human development, and biology and economics. My research draws on both the biomedical and the social sciences with the aim of understanding the developmental origins of health inequalities, the role of child development as input in the production of lifecycle health and the behavioral and biological pathways through which early life shocks, investments and policies affect well-being throughout the lifecourse. I often use novel sources of data, such as biomarkers (ranging from fetal ultrasound scans to genetic markers), combined with linked administrative records and survey data. I have studied several interventions, such as the iconic Perry Preschool, Abecedarian and Nurse Family Partnership programs in the United States; and large-scale programmes such as Sure Start, the Family Nurse Partnership and Universal Health Visiting in England, and Seguro Popular in Mexico. Most of my work focuses on US and UK, however I have also worked on LMICs such as Colombia, India, Mexico and more recently Ecuador.

Jihyun Kwon is a PhD candidate in Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also a Vanier CGS scholar, a recipient of the Delta Kappa Gamma World Fellowship, and Richard Ericson Paper Award. She is currently appointed as a Visiting Scholar at the Asia Center, Seoul National University. Her research focuses on accountability, oversight, and administrative governance of law enforcement agencies. She examines the structural and functional dynamics that lead to various degrees of coordination and fragmentation among different state oversight entities. She also specializes in policy reforms related to the SDG16, such as access to justice, protecting human rights and eliminating discrimination, reporting of corruption and victimization, and independent national institutions. She has extensive knowledge of policing, corrections (prison), complaint and accountability procedures, dispute resolution, and bureaucratic governance.

Kenneth Nsah, also called Nsah Mala, is a poet, writer, interdisciplinary scholar, foresighter and futurist. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature & Environmental Humanities from Aarhus University (Denmark.) His expertise and research interests include: ecocriticism and environmental humanities; blue and energy humanities; education for sustainable development; indigenous peoples and indigenous knowledge systems; Anglophone and Francophone African literatures; comparative cultural and literary studies; environmental communication; foresight and futures; and creative writing; among others.

Professor Henrietta L. Moore is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and the Chair in Culture Philosophy and Design at University College London (UCL). A leading global thinker on prosperity, Professor Moore challenges traditional economic models of growth arguing that to flourish communities, businesses and governments need to engage with diversity and work within environmental limits. Her work crosses disciplines, from social science to the arts to business innovation and she applies these different perspectives to inform research and policy at all levels. Her recent work has focused on topics such as Universal Basic Services, social justice, ecological transitions, Artificial Intelligence, displaced people and digital services as a respected leading intellectual. She retains ongoing interests on issues of globalisation, mass migration, gender, social transformation and livelihood strategies, new technologies and agroecology which have shaped her career and her engagement with policy making. She is committed to involving grassroots communities in the production of new types of knowledge through citizen science. In 2016 Professor Moore was made Dame Commander for the British Empire for contribution to social sciences, business, policy and the arts. She is the lead academic on the ESRC-funded RELIEF Centre aiming to improve levels of prosperity in Lebanon, the country with the world’s largest number of refugees per capita. She is Chair of the London Prosperity Board and of FastForward 2030, a network and collaborative platform for businesses aiming to incorporate the Sustainable Development Goals into their business models. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Clean Growth Leadership Network and a Member of the Institute of Directors.