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CITYPERC is London’s hub for expert analysis on politics and economics. The Centre brings together world-leading expertise from academia, public policy, the financial sector and civil society to address key issues and challenges facing global capitalism today.
Established in 2012, the Centre has rapidly become a focus for interdisciplinary research across the UK, Europe and beyond. CITYPERC has promoted innovative workshops, conferences and public events on contemporary issues including tax justice, austerity economics, shadow banking and financial regulation. The Centre designed and developed the first BSc degree programme in International Political Economy in the UK, which opened at City’s Department of International Politics in 2014.
People & Partners
Core Team
- Sandy Brian Hager (Director)
- Amin Samman (Director)
- Albena Azmanova
- Sahil Dutta
- Charlotte Godziewski
- Photis Lysandrou
- Anastasia Nesvetailova (Founder)
- Stefano Pagliari
- Ronen Palan
- Inga Rademacher
- Stefano Sgambati
Fellows
- Grietje Baars, Senior Lecturer, The City Law School
- Daniel Beunza Ibanez, Associate Professor of Management, Bayes Business School
- Shelly Gottfried, Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research
- Jean-Christophe Graz, Professor of International Relations, University of Lausanne
- Juvaria Jafri, Postdoctoral Researcher, Cambridge Judge Business School
- Andrew Jones, Professor of Economic Geography, City, University of London
- Martijn Konings, Professor of Political Economy and Social Theory, University of Sydney
- Iosif Kovras, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Cyprus
- Etienne Lepers, Economist, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Steffen Murau, Postdoctoral Fellow in International Political Economy, Boston University
- Avinash Persaud, Professor Emeritus, Gresham College
- Hannah Peterson, Postdoctoral Fellow, City, University of London
- Ann Pettifor, Director, Policy Research in Macroeconomics
- Brunello Rosa, CEO and Head of Research, Rosa & Roubini Associates
- Josh Ryan-Collins, Senior Research Fellow, UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
- Orkun Saka, Lecturer in Economics, City, University of London
- Andrei Sandu, Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of Bath
- Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, CITYPERC
- Mark Herman Schwartz, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia
- André Spicer, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School
- Geoff Tily, Senior Economist, Trades Union Congress
Doctoral Fellows
- Aimira Imanova
- Aggela Papadopoulou
- Jenaline Pyle
- Xinyi Wei
Institutional Partners
Working Papers
2025
- Aggela Papadopoulou, Public Debt and the Income Share of the Top 1% in the US, 1960-2019, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2025-02
- Photis Lysandrou, Dollar Colonisation: The Destructive Policy Implications of Modern Monetary Theory, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2025-01
2024
- Photis Lysandrou, A Generalised Commodity Theory of Exploitation, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2024-03
- Sandy Hager, Tracking the Fortunes of Corporate Psychedelia, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2024-02
- Stefano Sgambati, Invisible Leverage of the Top 1 Percent: Absentee Debtors and Their Hedge Funds, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2024-01
2023
- Cecilia Rikap, Mapping the Cloud: Big Tech Taking the Sky by Storm, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2023-05
- Joseph Baines and Sandy Brian Hager, Rentiership and Intellectual Monopoly in Contemporary Capitalism: Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Possibilities, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2023-04
- Cecilia Rikap, Same End By Different Means: Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta's Strategies to Organize Their Frontier AI Innovation Systems, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2023-03
- Photis Lysandrou and Yvonne Lysandrou, The Postcolonial Vortex, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2023-02
- Cecilia Rikap, Rethinking Monopoly as a Power Relation: The Shift from Market to Intellectual Monopoly, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2023-01
2022
- Photis Lysandrou, A Gravity Theory of Subordinate Financialisation, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2022-06
- Ronen Palan, The Rise of a Rule-Based Transgressor Elite, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2022-05
- Joseph Baines and Sandy Brian Hager, From Passive Owners to Planet Savers? Asset Managers, Carbon Majors and the Limits of Sustainable Finance, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2022-04
- Photis Lysandrou, The European Banks’ Role in the Financial Crisis of 2007-8: A Critical Assessment, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2022-03
- Amin Samman and Stefano Sgambati, Financial Eschatology and the Libidinal Economy of Leverage, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2022-02
- Joel Rabinovich, The Evolving Contribution of R&D, Advertising and Capital Expenditures for US-Listed Firms’ Growth in Sales, 1979-2018, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2022-01
2021
- Photis Lysandrou and Taimaz Ranjbaran, Financialisation Reinforced: The Enduring Legacy of the Covid Pandemic, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2021-07
- Madhumitha Ardhanari, Sand Extractivism and Its Inequalities: Elite Scripts in the Singaporean Demand for Sand, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2021-06
- Stefano Pagliari and Iosif Kovras, Individual Accountability in International Economic Policymaking after the Global Financial Crisis, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2021-05
- Etienne Lepers, Fiscal Policy as Credit Policy: Reassessing the Fiscal Spending vs. Private Debt Trade-Off, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2021-04
- Anastasia Nesvetailova, Ronen Palan, Hannah Petersen and Richard Phillips, IFFs and Commodity Trading: Opportunities for Identifying Risks in Energy Traders’ Financial Conduct Using Groups’ Corporate Filings, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2021-03
- Stefano Sgambati, Who Owes? Class Struggle, Inequality and the Political Economy of Leverage as Power in the 21st Century, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2021-02
- Joseph Baines and Sandy Brian Hager, The Great Debt Divergence and its Implications for the Covid-19 Crisis: Mapping Corporate Leverage as Power, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2021-01
2020
- Amin Samman, Eternal Return on Capital: Nihilistic Repetition in the Asset Economy, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2020-03
- Photis Lysandrou, The Spatialisation of the Future, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2020-02
- Photis Lysandrou and Anastasia Nesvetailova, This Time Was Different: The Global Safe Asset Shortage and Shadow Banking in Socio-Historical Perspective, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2020-01
2018
- Ronen Palan, Nikiforos Panourgias, Anastasia Nesvetailova and Yuval Millo, Clouds on the Horizon: Emerging Issues in Tax and Regulation, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2018-04
- Anastasia Nesvetailova, Andrei Guter-Sandu, Ronen Palan and Yuval Millo, Tax Evasion and Avoidance by Financial Engineering: The State of Play in Europe, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2018-03
- Anastasia Nesvetailova, Andrei Guter-Sandu and Ronen Palan, Tax Evasion and Avoidance by Financial Engineering: Implications for Policy, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2018-02
- Cornel Ban, The Professional Politics of the Austerity Debate: Comparing the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2018-01
2017
- Anastasia Nesvetailova, Ronen Palan, Stefano Pagliari, John Grahl, Richard Murphy, Izabella Kaminska and John Christiansen, A Singapore on the Thames? Post-Brexit Deregulation in the UK, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2017-06
- Richard Murphy, Making Tax Digital: Evidence in support of the statements made to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee on 6 February 2017, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2017-05
- Richard Murphy, Why Bother with the Tax Gap? An Introduction to Modern Taxation Theory, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2017-04
- Richard Murphy, The Data Needs of Public Accounts Committees, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2017-03
- Richard Murphy, Country-by-country Reporting: An Exploration of the Data Potential for Tax Authorities, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2017-02
- Alex Cobham, Jonathan Gray and Richard Murphy, What Do They Pay? Towards a Public Database to Account for the Economic Activities and Tax Contributions of Multinational Corporations, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2017-01
2016
- Photis Lysandrou and Mimoza Shabani, The Explosive Growth of the ABCP Market Between 2004 and 2007: A 'Search for Yield' Story, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2016-03
- Avinash Persaud, Breaking the Link Between Housing Cycles, Banking Crises, and Recession, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2016-02
- Sandy Brian Hager, Public Debt in an Unequal World, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2016-01
2015
- Richard Murphy and Ronen Palan, Why the UK’s Fiscal Charter is Doomed to Fail: An Analysis of Austerity Economics during the First and Second Cameron Governments, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2015-03
- Jan Fichtner, The Offshore-Intensity Ratio: Identifying the Strongest Magnets for Foreign Capital, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2015-02
- Photis Lysandrou, Three Myths Behind the Case for Grexit: A Destructive Analysis, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2015-01
2014
- Ronen Palan and Anastasia Nesvetailova, Elsewhere, Ideally Nowhere: Shadow Banking and Offshore Finance, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2014-01
2013
- Andrew Jones, (Re-) Conceptualising the Space of Markets: The Case of the 2007-9 Global Financial Crisis, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-10
- Domenica Tropeano, Financial Fragility in the Current European Crisis, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-09
- Michele Fabrizi and Antonio Parbonetti, Privatized Returns and Socialized Risks: CEO Incentives, Securitization Accounting and the Financial Crisis, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-08
- Esther Jeffers and Claudia Baicu, The Interconnections Between the Shadow Banking System and the Regular Banking System: Evidence from the Euro Area, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-07
- Elias Bengtsson, Fund Management and Systemic Risk: Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-06
- Israel Cedillo Lazcano, The Historical Role of the European Shadow Banking System in the Development and Evolution of Our Monetary Institutions, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-05
- Pablo Torija, Do Politicians Serve the One Percent? Evidence in OECD Countries, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-04
- Ronen Palan and Anastasia Nesvetailova, The Governance of the Black Holes of the World Economy: Shadow Banking and Offshore Finance, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-03
- Sara Hsu, Jianjun Li and Yanzhi Qin, Shadow Banking and Systemic Risk in Europe and China, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-02
- Judith Tyson and Mimoza Shabani, Sizing the European Shadow Banking System: A New Methodology, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2013-01
2012
- Luigi Russi, A Second Look at the 2007-08 Food Price Crisis: Considering the Impact of Endogenous Dynamics on Food Prices, CITYPERC Working Paper Series No. 2012-01
Activities
2023
- Book discussion: "The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilizes our Governments and Warps our Economies." With Rosie Collington, Cecilia Rikap, and Inga Rademacher. 14 March 2023.
- CITYPERC Co-Director Amin Samman gives public lecture on “World Financial Void" at the Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, University of Heidelberg. 17 January 2023.
2022
- Book launch: "Owning the Future: Power and Prosperity in an Age of Crisis." WIth Adrienne Buller, Mathew Lawrence, Hettie O'Brien, and Sandy Hager. 7 December 2022.
- Book launch: “Expropriation by Law: Intellectual Property, Value and Labour." With Christian Bessy, Greitje Baars, and Els Torreele. 12 October 2022.
- Professor Steve Schiferres publishes article in The Conversation on Kwasi Kwarteng's Mini Budget. 23 September 2022.
- CITYPERC Co-Director Sandy Hager publishes article in The Guardian on UK government support for the energy companies. 8 September 2022.
- Professor Steve Schiferres publishes article in The Conversation on Liz Truss's economic policies. 5 September 2022.
- Professors Photis Lysandrou and Anastasia Nesvetailova publish article with INET on why the Ukraine crisis will make little difference to dollar supremacy. 24 June 2022.
- CITYPERC Co-Director Amin Samman awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship for project on “Economies of Desire in the Twenty-First Century.” 23 March 2022.
- Professor Ronen Palan publishes article in The Conversation on the Ukraine war's link to the 2008 financial crisis. 21 March 2022.
- Book launch: “Britain Alone: How a Decade of Conflict Remade the Nation." With Liam Stanley (Sheffield), Miriam Brett (Common Wealth), Rebecca Bramall (LCC) and Jeremy Green (Cambridge). 16 March 2022.
- Professor Steve Schiferres publishes article in The Conversation on the economic consequences of the Ukraine invasion. 25 February 2022.
- CITYPERC Working Paper Series added to the EconStor database. 25 February 2022.
- CITYPERC Working Paper Series added to the Columbia International Affairs Online database. 4 February 2022.
- Professor Steve Schiferres publishes article in The Conversation on the UK's Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill. 2 February 2022.
- CITYPERC's Cecilia Rikap launches webinar series on "Alternative Futures for Capitalism." 26 January 2022.
- CITYPERC's Orkun Saka publishes article with the OECD Forum Network on the scars of Covid-19. 25 January 2022.
- CITYPERC Co-Director Sandy Hager publishes article in The Guardian on the UK energy and cost of living crisis. 19 January 2022.
2021
- Online public seminar with Professor Photis Lysandrou (City): “Financialisation Reinforced: The Dual Legacy of the Pandemic.” Discussant: Mareike Beck (King's College London). 9 December 2021.
- CITYPERC Co-Director Amin Samman presents paper to the Philosophy of History Seminar Series at the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London. 11 November 2021.
- CITYPERC Co-Director Amin Samman awarded Visiting Fellowship at the Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) at the University of Heidelberg for project on “Nihilism and the Ends of Finance.” 5 November 2021.
- Professor Steve Schiferres publishes article in The Conversation on the UK Autumn budget. 26 October 2021.
- Professor Ronen Palan publishes article in The Conversation on the G7 tax deal. 8 June 2021.
- CITYPERC team publishes policy report on The Amazon Method. 15 May 2021.
- CITYPERC Co-Director Amin Samman organises workshop on the Libidinal Economies of Contemporary Capitalism. 15-16 April 2021.
2020
- CITYPERC Co-Director Sandy Hager interviewed for the PERC Lockdown Podcast, discussing the political economy of the corporation. 30 May 2020.
- CITYPERC Co-Director Sandy Hager releases a co-authored report with Common Wealth: “Commoning the Company.” 17 April 2020.
2019
- CITYPERC hosts Intersections of Finance Society 2019, the 4th annual conference of the Finance and Society Network (FSN). 12-13 December 2019.
- Public seminar with Professor Ronen Palan (City): “Arbitrage Power and the Vanishing Financial Firm.” 11 December 2019.
2018
- Public seminar with Michel Feher: “Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age.” 29 November 2018.
- Public seminar with Professor Steven Vogel (UC Berkeley): “Marketcraft: How Governments Make Markets Work.” 9 March 2018.
- CITYPERC Director Anastasia Nesvetailova interviewed by Al Jazeera News, discussing the diversification of the Saudi economy. 20 April 2018.
- Building on two successful conferences at City, Dr Amin Samman (City) and Professor Martijn Konings (Sydney) launch the Finance and Society Network (FSN), an interdisciplinary research network dedicated to fostering new perspectives on the social implications of contemporary finance.
2017
- CITYPERC hosts another two-day conference on Intersections of Finance and Society. 2-3 November 2017.
- Workshop (by invitation): “A Singapore on Thames? Brexit and the City of London.” 30 March 2017.
- Public seminar with Professor Benjamin J. Cohen (UC Santa Barbara): “RMB Internationalisation: A Conflict of Statecrafts.” 22 March 2017.
- Workshop (by invitation): “Finance Uncovered: The Tax Disclosure Project.” 28 February-3 March 2017.
2016
- Launch of new research project led by Professors Ronen Palan, Anastasia Nesvetailova and Richard Murphy. The project was awarded a €638.000 European Commission H2020 grant and is part of €5 million international research initiative that aims to discover the scale of tax revenue lost through tax avoidance and evasion across the European Union. 16 November 2016.
- Launch of new research project led by Professors Ronen Palan, Anastasia Nesvetailova and Richard Murphy. The project was awarded a €1.739 million European Research Council grant, the first at City, and will focus on developing a framework to study the arbitrage power of multinational corporations through an innovative Corporate Processes and Linkages mapping methodology. 16 November 2016.
- In association with the journal Finance and Society and the Social Studies of Finance Research Network at the University of Sydney, CITYPERC hosts a two-day conference on the Intersections of Finance and Society. The event focuses on contemporary money and finance, specifically aiming to forge new synergies between the field of political economy and perspectives from sociology, history, and philosophy. 3-4 November 2016.
2015
- Workshop (by invitation): “The Role of Debt in the Economy: QE and Beyond.” 2 December 2015.
- Workshop (by invitation): “The 'Robin Hood' Tax: Towards a Policy Proposal.” 28 October 2015.
- Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova interviewed on CNN, discussing her appointment to Labour's new Economic Advisory Committee and Corbyn's proposed anti-austerity programme, including the so-called ‘people's QE.’ 2 October 2015.
- CITYPERC Director Anastasia Nesvetailova and Honorary Research Fellow Ann Pettifor join Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and Professors Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics), Mariana Mazzucato (Sussex), Danny Blanchflower (Dartmouth) and Simon Wren-Lewis (Oxford) in the newly appointed advisory panel to John McDonnell MP, the Labour Party's new Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. 27 September 2015.
- Public seminar with Professor Emeritus Richard Higgott (University of Warwick): “The Institutionalisation of the East Asian Economic Order: Theory and Practice in the China-US Stand-Off.” 6 October 2015.
- Dr Amin Samman (CITPERC) launches Finance and Society, a new journal dedicated to interrogating the social character of finance. 2 July 2015.
- Public seminar with Ray Silvius (Winnipeg), Anastasia Nesvetailova (CITYPERC) and John Lough (Chatham House and BGR Gabara: “Money and Ideas behind Putin's Russia.” 17 June 2015.
- Professor Ronen Palan interviewed by Vice magazine on tax avoidance and the difficulty of prosecution. 26 February 2015.
2014
- Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova publishes a piece in The Conversation: “Bank bailouts begin as Russia faces biggest challenge to date.” 23 December 2014.
- Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova interviewed on CNBC, explaining how the Russian oil crash is now turning into a banking crisis. 22 December 2014.
- Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova interviewed on Australia’s ABC News, commenting on Russia’s economic turmoil and its effect on ordinary Russians. 17 December 2004.
- Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova interviewed on Channel 4 News, discussing the collapse of the rouble and the fragility of the Russian economy. 16 December 2014.
- Public seminar with Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova (CITYPERC) and James Meadway (New Economics Foundation): “Shadow Banking and the Next Crisis.” 1 December 2014.
- CITYPERC Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) workshop series: “The City of London and the Future of the British Economy.” 5 November 2014.
- CITYPERC and Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) roundtable discussion with Brunello Rosa (Roubini Global Economics), Ann Pettifor (PRIME Economics), Geoff Tily (TUC), John Mills (John Mills Limited) and Paul Davies (Wall Street Journal): The Role of the City of London in the British Economy. 5 November 2014.
- Professor Ronen Palan interviewed in The Guardian, discussing Luxembourg’s dealings as a tax haven. 6 November 2014.
- Professor Ronen Palan interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight, debating Bridget Rosewell on the economic impact and global role of the City of London. 18 July 2014.
- Dr Ann Pettifor interviewed on BBC Daily Politics, debating Spectator magazine’s Fraser Nelson on rising interest rates. 24 June 2014.
- Public seminar with Dr Martha Poon (London School of Economics and Political Science): “The Making of Subprime Finance: From New Deal Institutions to Capital Markets.” 10 June 2014.
- Dr Anastasia Nesvetailova and Dr Ann Pettifor join Professor Tim Jackson (University of Surrey) and Ben Dyson (founder of Positive Money) in a panel discussion at the House of Commons as part of the People's Parliament series hosted by John McDonnell MP: “Making Money Work for People and Planet.” 25 June 2014.
- Professor Ronen Palan interviewed on RT’s Going Underground, discussing the City of London’s global financial power as an offshore centre and tax haven. 7 May 2014.
- Dr Anastasia Nesvetailova publishes a piece on Financial Times Alphaville: “Making a Non-Western Payment Card System, in Russia.” 25 April 2014.
- Public seminar with Professor Radhika Desai (University of Manitoba): "After Globalisation, US Empire and Geopolitics.” 3 February 2014.
2013
- Public seminar with Josh Ryan-Collins (New Economics Foundation): “Where Does the Money Go? Strategic Quantitative Easing.” 10 December 2013.
- Public seminar with Benjamin Braun (University of Warwick and Université Libre de Bruxelles): “Governing (through) Expectations: Performativity, Credibility and Knowledge in Monetary Policy.” 12 November 2013.
- Public seminar with Professor Maxim Bratersky (Higher School of Economics, Moscow): “Rebuilding the Empire: Eurasian Union or Pax Russica?” 16 October 2013.
- Public seminar with Dr Ann Pettifor (PRIME Economics and CITYPERC): “Jubilee 2000 Debt Campaign: An Insider View.” 14 October 2013.
- Public seminar with Professor Herman Schwartz (University of Virginia and CITYPERC): “The New Politics of Business: From a Physical to an Intangible Economy.” 9 October 2013.
- Workshop (by invitation) with the Tax Justice Network: "Base Erosion and Profit Shifting: The Future of Corporate Taxation.” 4-5 July 2013.
- Roundtable discussion with Professor Erik Gerding (University of Colorado Law School) and Professor Jan Toporowski (SOAS): “Debt, Bubbles, Financial Architecture and Law.” 24 June 2013.
- Roundtable discussion with Professor Heikki Patomäki (University of Helsinki) and Dr Leila Simona Talani (King’s College London): “The Great Eurozone Disaster: What Future for the EU?” 12 March 2013.
- Conference in cooperation with COST and Cass Business School: “Shadow Banking: A European Perspective.” 1-2 February 2013.
CORPLINK
CORPLINK is a four-year research project aimed at creating new ways for policy makers, regulators and academics to investigate how companies use complex global networks to build 'arbitrage power'. This dimension of economic power, not as yet recognised in political science literature, refers to the capacity of organisations to shape the framework of the global economy to advance their interests.
The project, which has been awarded a €1.7million Advanced Grant by the European Research Council,one of the most prestigious academic funding awards in the world, involves mapping the hundreds and sometimes thousands of cells belonging to at least 22 multi-unit, multi-layered and multi-jurisdictional corporations.
The team
The team of researchers, led by principal investigator Professor Ronen Palan (City), includes:
- Professor Richard Murphy (City)
- Professor Anastasia Nesvetailova (City)
- Dr Christopher Gandrud (City)
- Dr Hannah Peterson (City)
- Professor Leonard Seabrooke (Copenhagen Business School)
- Professor Duncan Wigan (Copenhagen Business School)
- Dr Richard Phillips (Manchester)
- Johnny West (OpenOil)