Welcome!

Photograph by George Bergman

I’m a Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford,  Fellow by Special Election at St. Catherine’s College (where I was a Tutorial Fellow from 2017 until 2024), and a Professorial Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. I direct the MSc in Financial Economics programme and co-direct the new (part-time, hybrid) MSc in Applied Financial Economics.

I’m an associate editor at the Review for Economics and Statistics and at Journal of Economic Theory. Matt Weinberg and I served as the Program Chairs of EC’26.

My current research interests lie mainly in market and mechanism design. I am also interested in environmental economics and I co-lead the Finance Theme at the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery.

I often advise companies, governments and NGOs on auction and market design.

I am also co-founder of Refugees.AI, an organisation that is developing new technology for refugee resettlement (originally funded by Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship).

Silver mining in Kuttenberg (Kutná Hora, Bohemia). Possibly the earliest medieval depiction of an auction (in the house with a round table in the top half of the miniature). Presented at a Sotheby’s auction in 2009. Likely produced in the Prague workshop of Mattheus Illuminator in 1496.