I am a PhD researcher at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP), where my work examines the inflation risks of public capital investment. I develop practical tools to help policymakers assess fiscal policy, drawing on a background of fifteen years as a chartered engineer. I am also the founder and executive director of the MMTUK Policy Research Group, and co-host of The MMT Podcast.
Outside of research, I enjoy art, swimming in the sea, and spending time with my family.
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What I work on
My doctoral research focuses on inflation dynamics, fiscal policy and price stability, and public investment. Since the financial crisis, the limits of monetary policy for managing inflation have become increasingly clear, and many sources of inflation lie outside the central bank’s influence. My work develops an input–output framework for identifying inflation-sensitive parts of the economy, enabling the inflation risk of a given public investment to be assessed before it is undertaken, adding a supply-side dimension to a debate that has largely focused on demand.
More broadly, I work on the economics of public provisioning: how governments can use fiscal policy to deliver on priorities from energy security to employment without triggering inflation. The common thread across my work is bringing supply-side and real-resource thinking into questions usually treated as purely monetary.