Academic project team
Abigail McKnight (academic and project lead)
Abigail is Associate Director at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), LSE. Her research interests span multidimensional inequality, low wage employment, evaluation of active labour market programmes, earnings inequality and mobility, through to the graduate labour market, household wealth inequality and household debt. She is a co-editor of two volumes published by Oxford University Press in 2014 covering the findings from a major international study of inequality across thirty countries spanning a period of thirty years Changing Inequalities in Rich Countries and Changing Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries.
Pedro Mendes Loureiro
Pedro is Lecturer in Latin American Studies at the Centre of Latin American Studies and the Department of Politics and International Studies (CLAS/POLIS, University of Cambridge). Primarily a political economist, he is committed to interdisciplinarity and pluralism. His research encompasses different aspects of the political economy of Latin America, focusing on inequality, structural change and development strategies. He also works on inequality measurement, complexity economics, heterodox frameworks in economics, state theory, and mixed methods in the social sciences.
Polly Vizard
Polly is an Associate Director at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and works on the analysis of disadvantage and inequality across critical domains of life, including living standards, health and physical security. Her research interests include operationalising Sen’s capability approach as a basis for equality and human rights monitoring. She has previously worked on the development of several indicator-based monitoring frameworks, including the Equality Measurement Framework, the Children’s Measurement Framework and the Human Rights Measurement Framework.
Practitioner project team
Ana María Claver
Ana is a project manager and researcher on inequality at Oxfam Intermón, Spain. With an academic background on Law, Development Studies and Participation and Power relations for Social Change, Ana is a practitioner and social researcher with over 10 years of experience in the development sector, working on human rights, public policies and inequality. Currently, she leads different initiatives at Oxfam Spain, putting the multidimensional inequality framework into action.
Clare Kumar
Clare is an independent consultant with over 20 years of experience working in the development sector, mainly in countries in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa. She is currently a freelance consultant, working on social and economic policy issues with international organisations. She has published on a broad range of subjects including inequality, progressive expenditure and taxation issues.
Alex Prats (Oxfam lead)
Alex is Inequality lead, Oxfam Intermón, Spain. With an academic background on Business Administration, Development Studies and African Politics, he has worked with International NGOs performing different roles such as Oxfam Spain’s Regional Director for West Africa and Maghreb, Christian Aid’s Principal Economic Justice Advisor, or Oxfam’s Great Britain’s Deputy Regional Director in Horn, East and Central Africa. Currently, Alex is the Inequality Lead at Oxfam Spain.
Advisers
Ben Fine
Ben is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and Visiting Professor, Wits School of Governance, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He serves as Chair of the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy, IIPPE.
Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva
Ricardo is the Executive Director of Oxfam Mexico. Prior to that, he was head of research at Oxfam Great Britain. He is economist from the Center for Economic Research and Training (CIDE) and Pompeu Fabra, specialized in development and inequality. He was the lead author of the African Human Development Report and co-authored the flagship World Bank´s World Development Report 2010. Ricardo also led the initial work on economic inequality for Oxfam.
Naila Kabeer
Naila is Professor of Gender and Development at the Department of Gender Studies and Department of International Development. Her research interests include gender, poverty, social exclusion, labour markets and livelihoods, social protection and citizenship and much of her research is focused on South and South East Asia. Naila is currently involved in ERSC-DIFD Funded Research Projects on Gender and Labour Market dynamics in Bangladesh and India.
Chiara Mariotti
Chiara is a development economist working at Oxfam GB as policy manager on inequality, where she leads on policy and advocacy work that seeks to shift the terms of the debate on economic inequality. She holds a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
Research assistants
Patricio Espinoza-Lucero
Patricio is an Atlantic Fellow for Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities Institute, LSE. He holds an MA in Legal and Political Theory from University College London and an MSc Inequalities and Social Sciences from LSE. He has worked in education reforms in Chile and his academic interests relate to tackling socioeconomic inequalities.
Cara Leavey
Cara Leavey is a recent Masters graduate from the International Inequalities Institute at LSE. Her research interests include health inequalities, austerity and the welfare state. Cara is currently working for Rethink Mental Illness in their Campaigns and Policy team.
Laurie Mompelat
Laurie is a research analyst at the Runnymede Trust and the Centre for Labour and Social Studies, researching race and class inequality in the UK. They hold a first class honours undergraduate degree in ‘Social Sciences’ from Sciences Po Paris and a Master's in ‘Inequalities and Social Science’ from the London School of Economics.
Knowledge Exchange
Bert Provan
Bert is a Senior Policy Fellow, and Knowledge Broker, in the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion at the London School of Economics. His research interests lie in housing, neighbourhood renewal and the social impact of regeneration, the impact of welfare reforms, social return on investment, and comparative French housing policies.
Creative and design
Kalliopi Vacharopoulou
Kalliopi is the web developer and content manager at the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE) and at STICERD, LSE. She has experience in website management, online resources, and digital communications, including social media.
Raphael Whittle
Raphael is a designer with extensive experience in print and digital projects, working with a range of clients. His design subject matter encompass economics and research, law, all forms of the arts, libraries, exhibitions and archives. His designs include posters, books, journals, magazines, listings, diagrams, maps, and ephemeral items. Regular and recent work includes projects for the London School of Economics and Political Science; the City of London Corporation, including Guildhall Library, Guildhall Art Gallery, Economic Development Teams, the International Regulatory Group, and City Offices abroad; The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple; HMDT Music; Edition Peters Music Publishers and The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.