Professor Wendy Carlin CBE

Wendy is Professor of Economics at University College London (UCL) and Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). She is leading an international project - the CORE project - to reform the undergraduate economics curriculum. The CORE project has produced an open-access ebook for a first course in economics, which is being used at UCL, amongst many other universities around the world.

Her research focuses on macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, and the economics of transition. She is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the UK's Office for Budget Responsibility.

In 2015, Wendy was awarded a CBE for services to economics and public finance and in 2022 was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Martin Wolf CBE (PPE, 1965)

Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London, and has been named as one of the top 100 global thinkers by Prospect and by Foreign Policy magazine. He was awarded the CBE in 2000 for services to financial journalism. Martin is an honorary fellow of Corpus Christi College, Nuffield College and the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy (Oxonia) and an honorary professor at the University of Nottingham.  

Martin began his career at the World Bank in 1971. He became the Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre in London in 1981 and joined the Financial Times in 1987, where he has been associate editor since 1990 and chief economics commentator since 1996. He was  a forum fellow at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos from 1999 to 2020 and has been a member of its International Media Council since 2006.  He was a member of the UK’s Independent Commission on Banking in 2010-11. Martin was joint winner of the Wincott Foundation senior prize for excellence in financial journalism for 1989 and 1997. He won the Ludwig Erhard Prize for economic commentary for 2009 and In 2019, Martin received the Gerald Loeb Lifetime Achievement Award from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Professor Margaret Stevens 

A former colleague of Andrew Glyn, Margaret is Professor of Economics at Oxford and a Senior Research Fellow at Lincoln College, where she has been involved in teaching and research since 1993. She was the Tutorial Fellow in Economics at Lincoln from 2000 to 2016, and  Head of the University’s Department of Economics from 2016 to 2019. She is also involved in the CORE project, an international collaboration of university economists developing a new introductory economics curriculum for undergraduates.

Her research is mainly on labour economics and education, particularly equilibrium search and matching models, and their application to vocational training and other labour market policy questions.

She is currently a member of the Commission on Workers and Technology, which is investigating how technological change and automation are affecting people’s working lives, and how government, employers, and unions can together make new workplace technologies an opportunity not a threat for workers.