John Walker is Chairman of Oxford Economics, which he founded in 1981.

From 1973 to 1977, John worked in the UK Treasury, where he became an economic adviser in the short-term forecasting division. He then worked for the consultancy arm of The Economist Newspaper, before becoming a Special Adviser to the EEC Commission in Brussels in 1980, where he was co-ordinator of forecasts for all the EEC countries and related forecasts for the US and Japan.

John returned to the UK in 1983 to work full-time for Oxford Economic Forecasting. He has headed Oxford's move into international forecasting, developing strong links with economists around the world and co-ordinating the development of the PC versions of the Oxford models that are now widely used in the UK and the rest of the world. As well as being a much-respected commentator on global economic prospects, John leads major consultancy projects with government departments and multinational companies from Europe and the United States on issues ranging from international capital flows to developments in the Middle East economies.

Adrian Cooper is responsible for coordinating and managing Oxford Economics' global economic analysis, forecasting and consultancy activities, and overseeing its global team of 400 professionals including over 250 economists. He has led Oxford Economics' work on a wide array of consultancy projects, ranging from policy advice to government departments in Europe, the US, Africa, and Asia to detailed analysis of the economic impact of particular industries and investment proposals.

Adrian spent the first seven years of his career with HM Treasury, England. During this time, he worked on the analysis of tax and other economic policy changes as part of the preparations for the UK Budget. He was also the coordinator of the government's macroeconomic forecast for two years.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics in 1994, Adrian was UK economist for James Capel & Company, responsible for analysing and forecasting the UK economy for institutional investors, as well as briefing Capel's own traders. Adrian was educated at the University of Bristol, England, where he gained a first-class degree in Economics; and at the London School of Economics and Political Science, England, where he achieved a distinction in the MSc in Economics and won the Ely Devons prize for outstanding performance in the degree examinations.

Charles Burton joined Oxford Economics in April 2008 as the Director of Business Development and is currently the company's Executive Director. He is also a fellow and council member of the Society of Business Economists and non-executive Chairman of the Sofia Property Fund, an AIM-listed real estate fund, as well as a member of the Scottish Government's Economic Consultants Advisory Group.

Charles has had a long career in business economics. He was an economist for Beecham Pharmaceuticals, before joining the Confederation of British Industry in 1975. At the CBI, he ran the company's business surveys and economic forecasting teams. As Deputy Director of Economics, he was later responsible for the CBI's economic policy representations. Between 1985 and 1988, he was in charge of the economic forecasting and consultancy business of Wharton Econometrics (now part of IHS Global Insight) in the UK and Europe. In 1988, he was CEO and one of the founding directors of Business Strategies Ltd, a leading independent forecasting and consulting operation. After its acquisition by Experian in 2002, he was the global managing director for the company's Business Strategies division.

Adam Sacks is the founder and President of Oxford Economics’ Tourism Economics division. Adam came to Oxford Economics from Global Insight, where he began its travel & tourism consulting practice. Adam has worked with over 50 tourism offices throughout the world.

Adam has advised destinations on tourism investment policy, entry procedures, tourism taxation, and marketing strategies. He has provided destinations with analysis on market positioning and emerging opportunities. Adam is an authority on measuring the economic impact of tourism activity and has implemented the UN-methodology for measuring the tourism sector (Tourism Satellite Accounts) for over 20 destinations.

Adam has consulted with multinational hotel chains, airlines, aircraft manufacturers, theme parks, resort developers, and retail operators to measure current and future market opportunities. He has presented to numerous corporate strategic planning teams on the threats and opportunities facing their businesses within the projected travel and economic climate. He is experienced in developing custom systems for quantifying tourism-market segment opportunities and has developed tourism forecasting models with exceptional track records. Adam is a regular conference speaker on issues related to tourism market analysis, the economic impact of tourism and travel-demand forecasting.

Scott Livermore is the Chief Economist of Oxford Economics Middle East and based in Oxford’s Dubai office. He is also Managing Director of Consultancy in the Middle East and Asia, as well as a member of Oxford Economics’ Senior Management Team. Scott leads many of the major projects in the GCC and Asia which have recently included capacity building, macroeconomic modelling, and policy impact assessment engagements for government institutions in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Oman, and IFRS 9 and Stress Testing engagements in Singapore, Thailand, and Hong Kong.

After completing a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford University, and an MSc in Economics at University College London, Scott joined Oxford Economic Forecasting in 1997. During his initial five years at OEF, he worked as a country analyst for a number of European countries and participated in numerous consultancy projects for a variety of international organisations, governments and multinational companies using both Oxford Economics’ Global Economic Model and bespoke economic models.

Scott rejoined Oxford Economics in 2005 as a senior economist after spending two years at the Ministry of Finance in the Slovak Republic assisting with the government's medium-term macroeconomic framework and developing the analytical capacity of the ministry to prepare such forecasts. He has also held the positions of Managing Director of Macro and Industry Services, Managing Director of Macro Consulting, and COO of Oxford Economics USA.

Sam Moore is Managing Director, Economic Consultancy in charge of economic impact and cities services at Oxford Economics. He manages Oxford Economics’ London office and is responsible for coordinating and managing many of Oxford Economics’ major consultancy projects.

Sam manages projects across all sectors of the economy and has lead Oxford’s recent work for Airbus, AT&T, BAE Systems, CBI, Deloitte, Etihad Airways, GE, JLL, Pinewood Studios, Rolls-Royce, SAP, UK Space Agency, UPS, and the World Wide Web Foundation.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics Sam spent the previous eight years with Experian, where he managed a team of economists responsible for economic modelling. Prior to joining Experian in 1998, Sam worked in the macroeconomics division at the Office for National Statistics. He graduated from Warwick University, from which he also has an MSc in Economics, gaining a distinction for his dissertation.

Arvindra Sehmi has over 30 years’ experience in academic research, capital markets and high-technology software industries, enterprise software architecture and solutions development.

After eight years at Microsoft as a global business manager and award-winning software architect and technical evangelist, Arvindra was Chief Technology Officer at a start-up building advanced social media analytics products. He spent a few years as an executive coach and mentor, and IT consultant to a number of small and medium sized businesses. At Oxford Economics he focuses on the 'front office' as well as the 'back office' driving business and IT innovation, new product development, leading IT change programs, building agile software development teams and talent management.

Arvindra has a BSc and PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Sussex University and Leicester University respectively, an MBA from The Open Business School, and is an Alvey Scholar of The Alan Turing Institute. Connect with Arvindra on LinkedIn.

Peter Suomi is based in New York and is the head of the subscription business in the Americas, including the United States, Canada and Latin America.

Peter has an extensive background in economic and research publishing, throughout the world. Previously, he worked at the Economist Intelligence Unit for seven years, from offices in New York, Australia, Singapore, and India. In his most recent role, he was responsible for all business development and strategic partnerships in South and Southeast Asia, and served as the regional head for the EIU’s client research practice in Asia. He was also instrumental in the opening of the EIU’s offices in Sydney and Delhi. Peter received his MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, with a focus on global management, and his BA in economics and political science from the University of Michigan.

Debra D'Agostino founded Oxford Economics' Thought Leadership division. She leads a high-caliber, global team of editors, analysts and researchers producing ground-breaking research in partnership with some of the world's most forward-looking organizations, on topics ranging from business transformation, disruptive technology, talent and diversity to enterprise risk management and corporate finance. Debra joined the firm from the Economist Intelligence Unit, the research arm of the Economist Group, where she led the company's business research department for the Americas. Prior to the EIU, she served as an editor and writer at CIO Insight, the award-winning business and technology strategy journal she helped launch at Ziff Davis Media in 2001.

For several years she authored the magazine’s Strategic Technology column, which earned numerous awards from American Business Media and the American Society of Business Publication Editors for excellence in business journalism.

Debra is passionate about the impact of emerging technologies and the influence of talent, human capital, and diversity on business operations and the global economy. She holds a bachelor of science in journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Christopher Allsopp is Oxford Economics' Non-Executive Director. He is also a Fellow of New College and Reader in Economic Policy at the University of Oxford.

Christopher recently completed a Review of Statistics for Economic Policymaking (the ‘Allsopp Review’). He is a former Member of the Monetary Policy Committee (2000-03) and of the Court of Directors of the Bank of England (1997-2000). He is the current Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy.

Previous activities include working at HM Treasury, the OECD and the Bank of England (where he was Adviser from 1980 to 1983) as well as extensive involvement with domestic and international policy issues as consultant to international institutions and private-sector organisations. Christopher has published extensively on monetary, fiscal and exchange-rate issues as well as the problems of economic reform and transition.  Current research interests include macroeconomic adjustment in the euro area, and China.

Educated in Italy and at the Universities of London (LSE), Paris and Oxford. From 1966 to 1977 at the OECD’s Department of Economics and Statistics where he was, inter alia, Head of the Growth Studies Division and Editor of the Economic Outlook. For one year (1973-74), Japan Foundation Fellow at the Research Institute of the Economic Planning Agency in Tokyo. From 1977 to 2007, Fellow and Tutor at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where he specialised in international and applied macroeconomic issues. Since 2008 Emeritus Fellow.

At various stages, consultant to the World Bank, the OECD and member of the Academic Council of the IFO Institute, Munich, as well as Visiting Professor at the Collège d’Europe, Bruges; at the International University of Japan; at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University; at INSEAD, and at the Universities of Venice, Torino, Paris, Siena and Rome Tor Vergata. He was formerly a member of the Board of Finmeccanica.

George is responsible for managing and co-ordinating Oxford’s Global Real Estate division including all sales, product development and business strategy.  George also heads up Oxford’s Specialist Markets Group, focusing on global growth across Oxford’s Tourism, BIS and NKC economic business groups.  

George is a member of the senior management committee and has spent 7 years with Oxford, after joining in 2012 to set up its real estate division. His main responsibilities include growing Oxford Economics’ presence within the real estate sector throughout EMEA, Asia and the Americas.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, George held roles with Real Capital Analytics (RCA) as Director of Business Development EMEA, Manager at CoStar UK and as an Associate for Savills Plc.
George is a member of the Society of Property Researchers (SPR), US Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) Research Affinity Group, The Investment Property Forum (IPF), Urban Land Institute (ULI) and Old Harrovian Property Club (OHPC).

George studied at Zurich International Business School, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Northumbria University (UK)

Christine is Head of Digital Publishing and IS Management at NKC African Economics. Her primary focus is to execute and manage the publishing of all subscription reports, and the maintenance and developments going with that. The Information Systems Management is a novelty position developed from a need at NKC to have someone at their office to manage IS related issues. That means new fields of interest, research and training for her.

Christine holds a BCom degree in Management from the University of South Africa. Before she joined NKC Independent Economists in July 2009, she gained extensive expertise in office management, administration, public relations, personal assistance and organisational skills in the organised agricultural environment and government entities throughout more than 19 years. She joined NKC as Operational Manager, and her experience with websites and information systems started after that when she was chosen to oversee and run the implementation of NKC's first website. During 2013 she was promoted to Head of Digital Publishing with her primary focus to take on the project management of developing a second website and eventually the third website onto OE's platform, while executing and managing the publishing of all subscription reports which goes with template designs and platform maintenance.  At the end of 2018, she took on IS Management additionally. She's also responsible for setting up and maintaining a feasible publication schedule for 17 analysts on 29 countries and 236 reports per annum. She serves as a member of NKC Management Committee and fulfils numerous other tasks related to office and digital administration.

François is Head of Research at NKC African Economics. His primary focus is on the impact of political risk on the business and investment environment, and its effect on fiscal dynamics. Francois joined NKC in August 2011.

François has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Stellenbosch and an MPhil in Futures Studies from the same university. He started his career in marketing and based in Cape Town, before relocating to Tunisia in 2007 where he worked as a stockbroker. In 2008 he moved to Morocco to launch an international trading desk for Integra Bourse, a regional financial services company. He returned to South Africa in 2010.

Thalma Corbett is a senior economist within the team focusing on Africa research.

Before joining NKC in February 2007, Thalma managed bio-analytical services development at a biotechnology firm. Since early 2007, she has specialised in macroeconomic and risk analysis of African countries. Her qualifications include a Master's degree in Chemistry and a Master's degree in Business Management and Administration (MBA) from Stellenbosch University. She obtained both her Honours and Master's degrees in Business Management and Administration cum laude and published seven articles in internationally accredited journals in the scientific and economic fields. 

Cobus is NKC African Economics’ Chief Economist for North and West African countries and specialises in the economies of Nigeria and Ghana. Cobus also provides media commentary and gives economic presentations at conferences. He joined NKC in 2014.

Cobus has a DCom in Economics from the University of South Africa, and a BCom (Hons) in Economics from the University of Stellenbosch after he completed his BCom Econometric Analysis degree at the same University. He spent two years with GSEC, a consultancy focused on strategy-realignment services in the public and private sectors, before moving to B&M Analysts as a research analyst and later project manager.

Manages the strategic growth and development of Oxford Economics’ subscription research business in the UK, Nordics, Middle East and Greater China.

Courtney joined Oxford Economics in 2014 as a Business Development Manager, working with clients in the UK, Nordics and the Middle East.  In November 2015, she became Director of Business Development overseeing the BD operations in the UK, Nordics, Middle East & Africa. 

Prior to Oxford Economics, Courtney worked in a multitude of international contexts. Most recently with Istanbul Gold Refinery, negotiating and managing the refinery's contracts with mining companies throughout Africa, Europe and Asia. Prior to IGR, she worked in media sales and advertising with renowned global media brands. Additionally, she spent time at the European Institute of Public Administration, as well as, NGO's in Russia and Nicaragua. Courtney has a strong background in project management and business information systems from her time at Sun Microsystems/Oracle and Monster Technology.

She holds an MSc in International Economic Development from Utrecht University in Holland and a BA in International Relations and European Studies from Ohio University in USA.

Henk heads business development initiatives in Africa for NKC African Economics. He joined NKC in 2018.

Henk holds an MCom in Economic Development and Policy Issues from the University of Johannesburg. He has over 12 years sales experience generating new business growing existing client accounts in countries across Africa, specializing in the public sector. He was previously employed as a Senior Business Development Manager at BMI Research and Senior Account Executive at IHS. Henk was also employed as a Specialist Researcher at Accenture and Researcher at Global Insight.

Corinna heads-up Oxford Economics’ commercial and strategic efforts across Continental & Eastern Europe as well as French-speaking Africa. She is in charge of our offices in Frankfurt, Paris and Milan and the Business Development activities across the region. Corinna joined Oxford Economics in London in 2012 and moved to Frankfurt in 2015 to focus on building the continental European business. She became a member of the Senior Management Team in 2018.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics Corinna gained international experience working in Cairo and Jakarta, where she supported the government and leading businesses in promoting investment opportunities abroad. She acted as a Junior Advisor to the Russia and CIS Committee of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and worked for a leading Indonesian consultancy focusing on market-entry strategies and PPPs. This allowed her to gain experience in consultancy and research as well as in business development.

Corinna holds a BSc in Geography with Economics from the London School of Economics, a joint MA degree in European Politics and International Relations from the Universities of Bath, SciencesPo Paris and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as well as a Postgraduate Diploma in Global Business from Saïd Business School in Oxford. She is fluent in English, German and French.

Noelani King Conradie is the Managing Director for NKC African Economics. Towards the end of 2002, Noelani decided to launch an independent economic service and founded NKC Independent Economists. The business has since grown into a team of over 30 people and in 2015 Noelani sold a majority stake in NKC to Oxford Economics. The company name was then rebranded as NKC African Economics.

Noelani obtained her BCom (Honours) degree from Pretoria University receiving distinctions for both her undergraduate as well as postgraduate degrees. Her career started in 1995 at RMB Asset Management, before she became a financial economist at ABSA Corporate Bank's treasury department. After a period in the stock-brokering arena at SG Frankel Pollak Securities, she relocated to Cape Town to start an economics department at PSG Investment Bank in 1999.

Jeremy Leonard is responsible for overseeing the work of the industry forecasting team and managing the operation and output of Oxford Economics’ 74-country, 100-sector Global Industry Model as well as related consultancy work.

Jeremy’s knowledge and past experience span a broad range, including competitiveness and offshoring/reshoring, commodity price modelling, and applied economic research on sectors ranging from biotech to heavy manufacturing to telecoms. In addition to numerous recurring bespoke sales and output forecasts for industries as diverse as machine tools and consumer packaging, recent consulting assignments have included the drivers of competitiveness in the chemical sector, forward-looking analyses of high-growth sectors across a range of emerging economies, and the ways in which digital technologies are transforming economic activity across manufacturing and service sectors.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Jeremy ran his own consulting firm based in Montreal, Canada providing a variety of economic analysis and forecasting services related to commodity prices, competitiveness, and the Canadian and US economic outlooks for the Washington, DC-based Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation, as well as serving as economic research director for the Montreal-based Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Born and raised in Washington, DC, Jeremy was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and McGill University, where he received his MA in Economics summa cum laude.

Anthony is Director of City Services at Oxford Economics. He specialises in sub-national economic forecasting and analysis and is responsible for overseeing our suite of global city forecasting services and city consultancy projects.

Anthony has worked extensively with a broad range of clients across both the public and private sectors, especially the real estate industry. He has led a number of major consultancy projects, with recent examples including providing location advice to property companies wishing to invest in European markets, an assessment of the impact of the recession on major global cities, and numerous city benchmarking studies.
Prior to joining Oxford Economics in 2008, Anthony was Head of Economics at Experian Business Strategies. At Experian, Anthony led the Economic Forecasting Unit, with particular responsibility for producing national and regional economic forecasts. Anthony graduated from the University of Surrey in 1999, where he obtained a BSc (Hons) in Economics and Sociology.

Innes McFee is Managing Director of Macro and Investor Services, based in London. Innes oversees the activities of the Macro & Investor Services teams globally, including the Global Macro Forecast and Global Macro Service.

Innes joined Oxford Economics in 2017 after 6 years at Lloyds Banking Group as a Senior Economist. At Lloyds Innes was responsible for the economic scenarios underpinning the Group’s internal planning and stress testing; analysis of key risks; and developing Lloyds’ approach to multiple economic scenarios for IFRS9. In addition, Innes’ role included developing the Group’s capability in modelling macroeconomic fundamentals and UK banking markets and advising the Group Corporate Treasury on financial market developments.

Prior to joining Lloyds Innes was an Economic Advisor at HM Treasury where his roles included management of the UK’s foreign currency reserves; US economist; and G20 macroeconomic policy advisor. Innes has a first class undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Durham and a MSc in Economics from Warwick University. 

Robert joined BIS Shrapnel in 1984, was appointed a Director of the company in 1987 and Managing Director in July 2007. In March 2017, Oxford Economics took majority control of BIS Shrapnel and it became BIS Oxford Economics and Robert continues as Managing Director.

He has over 35 years' experience in forecasting building activity and is a regular commentator on prospects for the residential property market.

Until becoming Managing Director Robert was responsible for our Australian, New Zealand, and Asian building forecasting services, and oversaw the Australian monthly bulletin, Building Industry Prospects. He continues to present at our bi-annual forecasting conferences. 

In 1994 Robert spearheaded the launch of our Asian building forecasting series. This is an annual series, with quarterly updates, covering twelve Asian countries.

Robert is regarded as Australia's leading forecaster on the building and residential markets. His views and comments are regularly sought by the national media. Many of Australia's leading builders and building material manufacturers consult with Robert in preparing their annual budget plans.

Jacques is NKC African Economics’ Chief Economist for the Southern and East Africa regions. His responsibilities also include media commentary. Jacques joined NKC in 2013.

Jacques has an MCom in Economics from the University of Stellenbosch. After graduating, he worked as a researcher and big-data analyst at Mxit, a pioneering social media platform, before joining NKC as a junior economist.

Elton is NKC African Economics’ Head of Global Business Development. He's responsible for cultivating new client relationships within the economic and country intelligence fields. He joined NKC in 2017.

Elton has a BCom (Hons) degree in Econometrics from the University of Pretoria. Before joining NKC he worked as a business development manager at IHS Global Insight, where he managed new business initiatives throughout the South Africa and the Sub-Saharan Africa region. He has also worked for the Economist Group.

Elizma is the Financial accountant and Operational Manager at NKC African Economics and joined the company in August 2018.

Elizma holds an Honours degree in Accounting from the University of South Africa (UNISA).  Before joining NKC, she has gained experience as an accountant in the retail, farming an also telecommunication sectors.

Jacques is the Head of Data and Modelling where he develops NKC African Economics’ econometric models and is responsible for NKC’s economic forecasts. He joined NKC in 2010.

Jacques has an MCom in Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics and Econometrics from the University of Stellenbosch. He joined NKC as a sovereign risk analyst for the North African region, worked on a range of sectoral reports for the African continent, created a number of indices for NKC and did research on African fixed income markets. Since 2016 he has focused on developing econometric models.