PROJECT TEAM

Phil Bunn is a Senior Technical Advisor at the Bank of England where he has worked since 2001. He currently works in the Structural Economics Division in the Monetary Analysis area of the Bank. He is the Programme Director of the DMP, responsible for the day-to-day running of the survey and dissemination of the results to the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee as well as being part of the research team working on the survey.

Paul Mizen is Professor in Economics at King’s College, London. Paul has taught at the European University Institute, Princeton University and the Universities of Nottingham and Vienna. He is Principal Investigator on the ESRC funded Decision Maker Panel project.

Paul is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Chairman of the ESRC-funded Money, Macro and Finance Society.

Krishan Shah is an Economist at the Bank of England, where he works in the Structural Economics Division of the Bank’s Monetary Analysis Directorate focusing on issues related to the corporate sector. Prior to joining the Bank of England in September 2023, Krishan was an Economist at the Resolution Foundation – a think tank focused on improving the living standards of low to middle income households – and where he worked on issues such as regional and wealth inequality, productivity, and housing. Krishan has also worked at an Associate at the Financial Stability Board in Basel. He holds a MSc in Economics from the LSE and a MA from the University of Oxford.

Gregory Thwaites is Associate Professor in Economics at University of Nottingham and a Research Director at the Resolution Foundation. He is on sabbatical from the Bank of England, where his most recent role was as Head of International Research. He has also worked as an economist for the United Nations Mission in Kosovo and the Independent Commission on Banking (the ‘Vickers Commission’). He is a visiting fellow at the LSE Centre for Macroeconomics.

Sasha is an Economics PhD candidate at the London School of Economics. She holds a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Economics from the LSE. Between studies, she worked at JP Morgan Asset Management, whilst also spending time as a research assistant for Professor Ricardo Reis (LSE) and Saleem Bahaj (UCL, Bank of England). Her research interests lie Macroeconomics, Political, and International Economics.