Structural Reforms and
European Integration

Prior to joining LSE, Paul De Grauwe was Professor of International Economics at the University of Leuven, Belgium. He was a member of the Belgian parliament from 1991 to 2003. He is honorary doctor of the University of Sankt Gallen (Switzerland), of the University of Turku (Finland), the University of Genoa, the University of Valencia and Maastricht University.



He obtained his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in 1974.
 He was a visiting professor at various universities- the University of Paris, the University of Michigan, the University of Pennsylvania, Humboldt University Berlin, the Université Libre de Bruxelles, the Université Catholique de Louvain, the University of Amsterdam, the University of Milan, Tilburg University, the University of Kiel. He was also a visiting scholar at the IMF, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank.

Yuemei Ji's interests cover three aspects. 1. International macroeconomics in general and the European monetary union during post-crisis period in particular. 2. Behavioural macroeconomics. 3. The Chinese economy, especial its financial development and the government and private debt problems.

Yuemei Ji did her undergraduate studies in Economics at Fudan University Shanghai and obtained her PhD in economics from the University of Leuven in 2011. She gives lectures on Intermediate Macroeconomics and International Macroeconomics. Prior to joining UCL, she was a post-doc researcher at the University of Leuven and then was a lecturer at Brunel University. She has been a visiting fellow at various institutions such as the European Institute at LSE and the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels.

Nauro Campos is Professor of Economics and Finance at Brunel University London, a post he has held since 2005. He is also a Research Fellow at IZA-Bonn and a Research Professor at ETH-Zürich. His main fields of interest are political economy and European integration. He has taught at the Universities of Bonn, Brunel, CERGE-EI (Prague), Newcastle, Paris 1 Sorbonne and Warwick. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore), a Robert McNamara Fellow at The World Bank, and a CBS Fellow at Oxford University. He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the (Central) Bank of Finland and was a visiting scholar (usually more than once) at the IMF, World Bank, European Commission, University of Michigan, ETH, USC, Bonn, UCL and Stockholm. From 2009 to 2014, he was seconded as Senior Economic Advisor/SRF to the Chief Economist of the Department for International Development (during the reigns of both Winters and Dercon.).

He received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) in 1997, where he was lucky enough to learn about institutions from Jeff Nugent and Jim Robinson and (more than) happy to be Dick Easterlin’s RA for three years.

Orkun Saka is an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Economics at the City, University of London, a Research Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre and STICERD as well as a Research Affiliate at the CESifo network. He has previously visited and worked for several policy institutions including the Bank of Finland, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development and the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey. His academic papers have been published in some of the world-leading journals in economics and finance, such as The Economic Journal and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking.

Assistant Professor at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently a Consultant for the Jobs Group of the World Bank and a Policy Fellow for the Open Innovation Team of the UK Cabinet Office and HM Treasury. His research interests span labour economics and European political economy. He is affiliated with the LSE Institute of Global Affairs where he co-leads their migration initiative and was an integral part in the launch of the Alliance of Leading Universities on Migration (ALUM). Before arriving at the LSE for his PhD he graduated from Pompeu Fabra University with a MSc and Master of Advanced Studies in Economics. Former President of the LSE Italian Society. He has published Op-Eds for several international newspapers including WSJ and El Pais.

Nicholas has studied Economics at University College London during his masters. He has been especially interested in Macroeconomics, with a particular focus on the Economics of Fiscal Policy and unconventional monetary policy. Prior to his master program, he was a student of Economics at University of Edinburgh.

Michael is a DPhil student in Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford. In his DPhil, he focuses on social and economic policy changes and how machine learning and causal inference can be used to improve our empirical understanding of both domains. For his doctoral studies, he has received a full scholarschip from ESRC and All Souls College. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Zeppelin University (with semester abroad at Columbia University) and a master’s degree in International Political Economy from London School of Economics (LSE). Before and during his doctoral studies, he has worked as Consultant, Researcher and Research Assistant at IMF, Oxford, LSE, UCL, King's College, and EBRD.