Welcome! I'm currently Subject Group Head (previously Director of Research) for Economics at the University of Liverpool Management School where I have been a Full Professor and Chair in Macroeconomics since 2019. I am also a research affiliate at the CEPR. For the 2024-25 academic year, I'm on sabbatical, serving as the Senior George Fellow at the Bank of England.
Prior to this I was a Principal Economist in the Monetary Analysis Division of the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany while on temporary leave from the University of St Andrews in Scotland where I was a Lecturer ("Assistant Professor") in the School of Economics & Finance.
Prior to that I was an Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington DC, and prior to that I was the Mead Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.
At various points over the years I have also been a research fellow at the Bank of Finland, National Bank of Poland, Central Bank of Ireland and Bank of England; a research intern at the Bank of England and the ECB, and a consultant for the ECB, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and National Bank of Kazakhstan.
I received my PhD, MPhil, and MA from the University of Cambridge. My research interests are in the fields of Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Macro-Finance, Asset Pricing and Computational Economics. My research has been published in some of the top journals in the profession, including Econometrica,the Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and Quantitative Economics, among others.