Curriculum Vitae

Employment

Bank of England - June 2017 to Present

Research and Policy Advisor, Bank of England - October 2023 to Present

Monetary Policy Outlook Division, Monetary Analysis

Senior Research Economist, Bank of England - June 2020 to October 2023

Strategy Team, Monetary Policy Outlook Division, Monetary Analysis (Nov 2022 to Oct 2023)
Split between Global Analysis Division, International Directorate and Macroprudential Strategy and Support Division, Financial Stability Strategy and Risk (Jul 2021 to Nov 2022)
Macroprudential Strategy and Support Division, Financial Stability Strategy and Risk (Jan 2021 to Nov 2022)
Research and Structural Policy Team, Global Analysis Division, International Directorate (Jun 2020 to Nov 2022)

Research Economist, Bank of England - June 2017 to June 2020

Research and Structural Policy Team, Global Analysis Division, International Directorate

National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Research Assistant - April 2016 to March 2017

Assessed the impact of Brexit on low income families in the UK, and set up NIESR's sovereign term premia series

Lipman Karas LLP, Expert Witness Assistant - November 2014 to November 2015

Consulted on and assisted in the preparation of an expert witness report on Global Financial Crisis for UK courts

University of Cambridge, Research Assistant - June 2011 to September 2014

"Optimal Monetary Policy in Open Economies", with Prof. Giancarlo Corsetti (Jun to Sep 2014)
"Economic Data in the Interwar Period", "Monthly and Quarterly Macroeconomic Data Series for the Interwar Period", and "Historical Economic Crises", with Dr. Solomos Solomou (Jun to Sep 2012, 2013)
"Politicians' behaviour in legislative bargaining", with Dr. Toke Aidt and Dr. Julia Shvets (Jun to Jul 2011)

Education

University of Cambridge

Ph.D. in Economics - September 2013 to November 2017

Dissertation: "An Analysis of Monetary Policy Transmission Through Bond Yields"
External Examiner: Refet Gürkaynak; Supervisor: Petra Geraats; Advisor: Giancarlo Corsetti

M.Phil. in Economic Research - September 2012 to August 2013

Distinction, first in cohort and winner of the Stevenson Prize, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge

B.A. (Hons) in Economics - October 2009 to June 2012

First Class and winner of Evanthia Sofianou Prize for Economics, Gonville & Caius College

Additional Awards

Research Presentations at Conferences and Seminars

2024 (* denotes scheduled; on paternity leave for most of year)

National Institute of Economic and Social Research (London)*; University of Oxford; 31st CEPR European Summer Symposium in International Macroeconomics (Banque de France, Paris); University of Glasgow.

2023

Economics Winter Workshop, Central Bank of Ireland; 5th BIS Workshop on Research on Global Financial Stability (Basel); CEPR Paris Symposium; ESCB Research Cluster 3 Annual Conference, Bank of Finland (Saariselkä); ESCB Research Cluster 2 Annual Conference, Bank of England; Banque de France; Saudi Central Bank (Virtual); Bank of England; London Junior Macro Workshop, London School of Economics; Money, Macro and Financial Annual Conference, University of Portsmouth; International Conference on Empirical Economics at PSU-Altoona (Virtual); NBER Summer Institute, International Asset Pricing (Boston); 28th International Panel Data Conference, University of Amsterdam; International Association for Applied Econometrics Annual Conference, BI Norwegian Business School (Oslo); Workshop on Econometric Theory and Applications, University of Siena; 1st UEA Time Series Workshop (Norwich); Bank of Canada and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Conference on Fixed Income Markets (Ottawa); NBER Conference on International Fragmentation, Supply Chains, and Financial Frictions, Santiago; European Central Bank (Frankfurt); AEA Annual Meetings, New Orleans.

2022

Workshop on Financial Frictions in International Economics, Banque de France (Paris); Global Research Forum on International Macroeconomics and Finance, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Central Bankers' Forum, Durham Business School; V Workshop of Spanish Macroeconomics Network, ESADE (Barcelona); ESCB Research Cluster 2 Annual Conference, Bank of Greece (Athens); London Junior Macro Workshop, London School of Economics; Annual Conference of European Economic Association, Bocconi University; International Association for Applied Econometrics Annual Conference, King's College London; Joint BIS, BoE, ECB and IMF Conference on New Challenges Amid Incomplete and Divergent Recoveries, Virtual; T2M Annual Conference, King's College London; Workshop on Growth-at-Risk Applications, CEMLA (Mexico City); European Central Bank (Virtual).

2021

BdF-BoE International Macroeconomics Workshop, Virtual; Bank of England (London); 24th Central Bank Macroeconomic Modeling Worskhop, Virtual; Centre for Central Banking Studies, Virtual; Money, Macro and Financial Annual Conference, Virtual; 37th International Conference of the French Finance Association, Virtual; QCGBF Annual Conference: Challenges facing central banks in the 2020s, Virtual (Poster); European Central Bank; Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, Virtual; International Banking Research Network Virtual Meeting.

2020

10th Workshop on Exchange Rates, Banca d'Italia (Rome); Office of Financial Research, US Dept. of the Treasury (Virtual); International Banking Research Network Virtual Meeting; Bank of England (London). 

2019

Centre for Central Banking Studies (London); BdF-BoE International Macro Workshop, Banque de France (Paris); University of Nottingham; Money, Macro and Financial Annual Conference, London School of Economics (x2); Annual Conference of European Economic Association, University of Manchester; International Banking Research Network, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; European Central Bank (Frankfurt); Joint BIS, BoE, ECB and IMF Workshop on Policies to harness global financial interconnectedness, BIS (Basel); Royal Economic Society Annual Conference, University of Warwick; International Banking Research Network, Banque de France (Paris); Banque de France (Paris); Bank of England (London, x2).

2018

BdF-BoE International Macro Workshop, Bank of England (London); Centre for Central Banking Studies (London); China Expert Network, Hong Kong Monetary Authority; Conference on Central Bank Communications, Bank of Canada (Ottawa); Bank of Canada (Ottawa); International Banking Research Network, BIS (Basel); Bank of England (London); Quantitative Finance and Financial Econometrics International Conference, Marseille; University of York; Annual International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance, Crete; Workshop on Financial Econometrics and Empirical Modeling of Financial Markets, Kiel; EABCN Workshop on Measuring the Effects of Unconventional Monetary Policy in the Data: What Have We Learned?, Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).

2017

Money, Macro and Financial Annual Conference, King's College London; Bank of England (London, x3); Royal Economics Society Ph.D. Meeting, University of Westminster.

2016

Workshop on Empirical Monetary Economics, Sciences Po (Paris); Bank of England (London); Money, Macro and Finance Annual Conference, University of Bath; National Institute of Economic and Social Research (London); Royal Economic Society Symposium of Junior Researchers, University of Sussex; Empirical Finance Reading Group, University of Cambridge; Macroeconomics Workshop (x2), University of Cambridge.

2015 

Empirical Macroeconomics Reading Group, University of Cambridge.

2014

Royal Economic Society Easter School, University of Birmingham; Macroeconomics Workshop (x2), University of Cambridge; Macroeconomics Reading Group, University of Cambridge.

Conference Organisation

1st Cambridge Alumni in Macro (CAM) Conference, 9-10 May 2024, jointly organised with Maarten De Ridder (London School of Economics and Centre for Macroeconomics) and Margit Reischer (Georgetown University). [Call for Papers]

Bank of England Special Session on "Global banks and non-bank financial intermediaries: Heterogeneities and vulnerabilities" at Money, Macro and Finance Annual Conference, 6-8 September 2023, jointly organised with Daniel Ostry (BoE).

2nd Workshop on International Macroeconomics and Finance, "International Dimensions of Inflation in a Deglobalising World", 17-18 May 2023, jointly organised with Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi (BoE), Giancarlo Corsetti (EUI) and Dmitry Mukhin (LSE). [Call for Papers]

Bank of England Special Session on "Global Spillovers, Monetary and Macroprudential Policies" at Money, Macro and Finance Annual Conference, 1-3 September 2021, jointly organised with Aydan Dogan (BoE) and Ed Manuel (BoE).

New economics of exchange rate adjustment, Cambridge, 21-22 March 2019, jointly organised with Giancarlo Corsetti (University of Cambridge), Olivier Jeanne (Johns Hopkins University), Sarah Lein (University of Basel), Giovanni Lombardo (BIS), Dubravko Mihaljek (BIS) and Luiz Pereira A. da Silva (BIS). [Call for Papers]

Refereeing Activities

Journals: B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (x2); ECB Working Paper Series; Economic Modelling; Economics Letters; European Economic Review (x2); European Journal of Political Economy; IMF Economic Review; International Finance; International Journal of Central Banking; International Journal of Finance and Economics; Journal of Empirical Finance (x2); Journal of International Economics (x3); Journal of International Money and Finance; Journal of Money, Credit & Banking; Macroeconomic Dynamics; Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Scottish Journal of Political Economy.

Scientific Committee: 2024 European Association of Young Economists Annual Meeting (Paris School of Economics).

Other: Review of Bank Al-Maghrib's Growth-at-Risk Toolkit, October 2022 (joint with Ed Manuel through Centre for Central Bank Studies).