Co-leads the Finance Theme at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery.
Research Experience
He often advises companies, governments, and NGOs on auction and market design. He is also a co-founder of Refugees.AI, an organization that is developing new technology for refugee resettlement (originally funded by the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship). He directs the MSc in Financial Economics programme and co-directs the (part-time, hybrid) MSc in Applied Financial Economics which is launching in May 2026.
Background
Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Fellow by Special Election at St. Catherine’s College (where he was a Tutorial Fellow from 2017 until 2024), and a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. His current research interests lie mainly in market and mechanism design. He is also interested in environmental economics and co-leads the Finance Theme at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery. Matt Weinberg and he will serve as the Program Chairs of EC’26.