Physical Education Professor, department of Physical Education Teacher Education, Faculty of Teacher Education, University of València

Professor John Tsoukalas is the Head of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School where he looks after 50 academic staff. He holds a BSc in Economics from the Athens University of Economic and Business, Greece, and a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland College Park in the USA. He joined the School in 2011 from the University of Nottingham where he spent five years. He has served as an Economist at the Bank of England from 2003 to 2006 in the Monetary Analysis division where he was in charge with advising the monetary policy committee about real investment developments in the UK economy. He has held visiting positions at Johns Hopkins University, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Hong Kong Monetary Authority. His research interests and publications are in macroeconomics, political economy, financial and investment cycles, financial regulation and the European debt crisis.

Research Areas: Islamic Banking, Corporate Social Responsibility, Gender Diversity and Women Empowerment, Bank Performance Analysis

Sayantan Ghosal is Professor of Economics at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and aFellow of the Royal Society for Arts, Mnufacture and Commerce. He was previously Dean of Interdisciplinarity and Impact at the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, a Professor of Economics at the University of Warwick from 2004 to 2013 where he was also Research Director of the ESRC funded Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). He also has a PhD from CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain under the European Doctoral Program in Quantitative Economics. Sayantan Ghosal co-ordinates the interdisciplinary research theme "Addressing Inequalities" at the University of Glasgow, leads the "LMIC Rseearch Network" and is an academic ambassador for the research beacon “Addressing Inequalities”. He is a PI on a number of research grants and a co-investigator on the ESRC funded “Rebuilding Macroeconomics Network”. Over his career he has been awarded over £1o million in research funding. and an external Research Fellow for ESRC Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE). He has supervised over 25 PhD students. His research interests include poverty and deprivation traps, behavioral welfare economics, sovereign debt crisis and restructuring, endogenous formation of networks and groups, political economy; global cooperation for climate change, long run growth and foundations of general equilibrium. He has published in journals such Economic Journal, Revciew of Economic Studies, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Economic History, Frontiers of Neuroscience, Games and Economic Behavior, , Economic Theory and Journal of Mathematical Economics and includes a ISI highly cited paper. He has authored/co-authored a number of policy reports (e.g. Chatham House), blogs (e.g. Vox EU, Ideas for India, The Conversation), newspaper articles (e.g. The Times of India and The Guardian) and presented research/evidence at the House of Commons and the Scottish Parliament. His research has been cited and discussed in the World Development Report 2015, the New York Times, The Times, The Guardian amognst other newpapers.