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Eshe Nelson is an economics and business reporter for The New York Times in London, where she covers European economic and monetary policies and how they affect households and businesses. Before joining The Times, she was a reporter for Quartz and Bloomberg News. She is a former Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University.

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Dr Joseba Martinez is a macro- and financial economist whose research interests include the effect of automation on productivity, economic growth, and income distribution. In addition, his work on the optimal design of banking system stress-tests has been published in the Review of Economic Studies.

He consults for a New York-based investment fund and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund.

Before beginning his PhD he worked as a trader at ABN AMRO London and was senior manager at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

He holds a BSc from University College London, an MSc from London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD from New York University, all in economics.

Linda Yueh is Adjunct Professor of Economics at the London Business School and Fellow in Economics at St Edmund Hall, Oxford University. She was Visiting Professor at the IDEAS research centre, the foreign policy research centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University. She serves on the Advisory Board of LSE IDEAS and on the Policy Committee of the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE.

She is a Non-Executive Director of three FTSE 100 companies as well as the Chair of an investment company. She is also Executive Chair of the Royal Commonwealth Society and a Trustee of the Fidelity UK and International Foundations. She was Co-Chair of the Global Cities Business Alliance (GCBA) and a Board member of London & Partners – the official promotion agency for London. She was a member of the Independent Review Panel on Ring-Fencing and Proprietary Trading of the UK Treasury and an Adviser to the UK Board of Trade. She has been an advisor to the World Bank, European Commission, Asian Development Bank, World Economic Forum at Davos, and the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC), among others.

Dr Yueh has published widely and is the author of a dozen books, including: The Great Crashes: Lessons from Global Meltdowns and How to Prevent Them, The Great Economists: How Their Ideas Can Help Us Today, What Would the Great Economists Do? How Twelve Brilliant Minds Would Solve Today’s Biggest Problems (US edition of The Great Economists), China's Growth: The Making of an Economic Superpower, and Enterprising China: Business, Economic, and Legal Development since 1979. Her textbook, Macroeconomics, co-authored with Graeme Chamberlin, is a recommended text of the UK Government Economic Service. She is also the Editor of the Routledge Economic Growth and Development book series.

Richard Portes, Professor of Economics at London Business School, is Founder and Honorary President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Co-Founder of Economic Policy. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the British Academy. He has been Chair of the European Systemic Risk Board Advisory Scientific Committee, of which he remains a member, and he is Co-Chair of the ESRB Joint Expert Group on Non-bank Financial Intermediation as well as of the new ESRB Crypto Assets Task Force. He is a founder member of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy and the Euro50 Group. He is an Academic Director of the AQR Asset Management Institute at LBS.

Professor Portes was a Rhodes Scholar, then an Official Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (of which he is now an Honorary Fellow). He has also taught at Princeton and Birkbeck College (University of London). He was the inaugural holder of the Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa Chair at the European University Institute (2014-2017), and he has been Distinguished Global Visiting Professor at the Haas Business School, UC Berkeley, and Joel Stern Visiting Professor of International Finance at Columbia Business School. He holds three honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on sovereign borrowing and debt, European monetary issues, European financial markets, macroprudential regulation, and international capital flows. Professor Portes was decorated CBE in the 2003 New Year’s Honours.