Maurizio Bussolo

World Bank Deputy Chief Economist for South Asia

Maurizio Bussolo is the Deputy Chief Economist for South Asia at the World Bank. He has been working on quantitative analyses of economic policy and development with research interests spanning both micro and macroeconomic topics. He also worked in the Chief Economist Office for Europe and Central Asia and in the Development Economics Prospects Group; and he led operational teams in the aftermath of the 2008-09 crisis negotiating with Latin American and Caribbean governments the implementation of reforms to shield the most vulnerable. Before joining the World Bank in 2003, he worked at the OECD, at the Overseas Development Institute in London, and at Fedesarrollo and the Los Andes University in Colombia. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals on trade, growth, poverty and income distribution. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Warwick.

Maurizio will be giving an InReach^10xSeminar Talk on the 17th October 2024, 12.30 - 13.30, C0.02 IAS Seminar Room.

Women, Jobs and Grown - South Asia Development Update October 2024.Link opens in a new window

Matthew Clayton

Matthew Clayton is Professor of Political Theory and Head of the Department of Politics and International Studies. He is a political philosopher who engages with topics concerning distributive justice, the foundations of liberal political thought, and certain kinds of applied philosophy, such as the philosophy of upbringing and education.

His recent research has been on whether it is morally permissible for parents to enrol their children into controversial religious doctrines or ethical worldviews. He argues that it is often morally impermissible for parents to do so. He defends ‘anti-perfectionist parenting’, which is a radical alternative approach to dominant views about what parents are permitted to do to, with, or for their children. This work has been published in a co-authored book, How to Think about Religious Schools: Principles and Policies (OUP, 2024) and is addressed in his forthcoming book, Independence for Children (OUP, 2025).

Matthew will be giving an InReach^10xSeminar Talk on Wednesday 13th November 2024.

The talk will briefly summarize the central argument of Independence for Children.

Roberta Bivins

Roberta Bivins' current research explores in the impacts of health technologies, and particularly technologies of medical surveillance, whether at Britain's national borders or in British household.

Across her historical research in this area she asks questions about whose bodies and whose cultures and environments of embodiment are taken as the standard for which technological and digital interventions are developed. This work – including recent articles on the emergence of DNA profiling as a British border surveillance technology (Bivins 2022, 2023)-- alongside wider developments in the history and social studies of STEM has led her to develop the concept of ‘biomedical marginalisation’ that drives her new project exploring the history of 'data inequality' in health care from clinical trials to health surveillance technologies. At the heart of this work is a commitment to interdisciplinary approaches reaching across from history to data and health sciences.

Roberta will be giving an InReach^10xSeminar Talk, on Wednesday 11th June 2025.