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UK 2024 Budget

04 December 2024, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm

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This event is open to IIPP's students and faculty only

This event is free.

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Open to

All | UCL students

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Yes

Cost

Free

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IIPP Comms

 

Hosted at UCL IIPP on Wednesday 4th December 2024 14:00 (GMT) for a talk by Rob Calvert Jump and Andrea Correa-Jimenez.

Read more about IIPP 2024-25 Enrichment Lectures

 

About the Speakers

Rob Calvert Jump

Senior Lecturer in the School of Accounting, Finance and Economics at The University of Greenwich

Rob
Rob Calvert Jump is a senior lecturer in the School of Accounting, Finance and Economics. Prior to joining Greenwich he worked at SOAS, Kingston, and the University of the West of England.  He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Kent, completed a Masters degree at the University of Edinburgh, and a Bachelors degree from SOAS.  He is an associate editor at the Review of Social Economy and a council member at the Progressive Economy Forum.

Rob works on problems in macroeconomics and public policy, with a particular focus on British political economy, policy, and economic history. His personal webpage is www.robcalvertjump.com.

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Andrea Correa

Research Officer at the School of Public Policy at LSE

Andrea
Andrea holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a master's degree in public administration from the London School of Economics (LSE), specializing in economic policy. She has served as a consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), evaluating the impacts of COVID-19, the war in Ukraine, and the effects of climate change and natural disasters on several economies in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Andrea has contributed to the development of the macroeconomic model used in the Fiscal Management Division of the IDB to address various questions related to debt sustainability, fiscal rules, and advising LAC economies.

Her professional background includes experience in both the private and public sectors. At Fedesarrollo, a public policy think tank, she analysed the monetary policy sector in Colombia. In the public sector, Andrea worked at both the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank of Colombia, where she maintained and developed macroeconomic models used to analyse economic policies and fiscal reforms in the country.

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