Publication
The Progressive Economy Forum brings together a council of eminent economists and academics to develop a new macroeconomic programme for the UK. We publish research and policy proposals, run a wide variety of events, and manage a blog featuring authoritative analysis of current issues facing the economy
Patrick Allen
Chair and Founder of PEF
Ann Pettifor
Political economist, author and public speaker.
Johnna Montgomerie
Reader in International Political Economy at King’s College London
Stephany Griffith-Jones
Financial Markets Director at the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University
Robert Skidelsky
Crossbench peer and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University
Jan Toporowski
Professor of Economics and Finance at the School of Oriental and African Studies
Josh Ryan-Collins
Head of Finance and Macroeconomics at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose.
Stewart Lansley
Visiting fellow at the University of Bristol.
Danny Dorling
Halford Mackinder Professor in Geography at the University of Oxford
Simon Wren-Lewis
Professor of Economic Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government
Kate Pickett
Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York
Ha-Joon Chang
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
Sue Konzelmann
Professor of Economics, Department of Management, Birkbeck, University of London
Guy Standing
Labour economist and Professorial Research Associate at SOAS
Susan Himmelweit
Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Open University
Geoff Tily
Senior Economist at the TUC
Natalya Naqvi
Assistant Professor in International Political Economy
Carolina Alves
Joan Robinson Research Fellow in Heterodox Economics
Will Hutton
Co-chair of the Purposeful Company. Principal Hertford College Oxford 2015- 2020, Co-founder of the Big Innovation Centre
Faiza Shaheen
Director of the Centre for Labour and Social Studies (CLASS)
Daniela Gabor
Professor of Economics and Macrofinance at UWE Bristol
Michael Jacobs
Professorial Fellow, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute
Özlem Onaran
Professor of Economics at the University of Greenwich
Laurie Macfarlane
Economist and Writer
MSc in Governance, Economics and Public Policy at Birkbeck College
PEF is endorsing the new MSc in Governance, Economics and Public Policy at Birkbeck College, University of London.
100 Policies to End Austerity
PEF Council member Dr Johnna Montgomerie is curating 100 Policies to End Austerity, a blog series featuring short, succinct policy proposals from PEF Council members and other thinkers about how we can transform our economy for the better, in partnership with openDemocracy and The Conversation.
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