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Louise Loo, Senior Economist at Oxford Economics
Louise Loo

Senior Economist

Louise Loo, Senior Economist at Oxford Economics

Louise Loo

Senior Economist

Singapore

Louise Loo joined Oxford Economics in 2022, with a focus on Greater China. Prior to OE, she was a senior economist at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. At Goldman Sachs, she was also an advisor to China MoF with regards to its sovereign credit rating. Louise is originally from Malaysia and has earned Economics and public policy degrees with Sheffield University and Columbia University.

Louw Nel
Louw Nel

Senior Political Analyst, OE Africa

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Louw Nel

Louw Nel

Senior Political Analyst, OE Africa

Cape Town, South Africa

Louw is the senior political analyst at Oxford Economics Africa. He joined the company in 2020 after five years with South Africa’s official opposition party, serving as its operations director at Parliament. He has an obsessive relationship with African politics and covers South Africa and several other countries.

Luke Pate

Economist, Economic Impact

Luke Pate

Economist, Economic Impact

London, United Kingdom

Luke Pate is an Economist in the Economics & Sustainability team within Economic Impact Consulting. Applying our strong economics foundation, the team works with clients to understand how they impact on and depend upon the environment, and to realise their sustainability vision.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Luke worked for an economics and policy consultancy, where he produced research for a range of clients in the UK and elsewhere including the European Commission and HM Treasury. Luke studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford.

Maarten Kroes

Director, Transport Advisory

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Maarten Kroes

Director, Transport Advisory

London, United Kingdom

Over 25 years’ of management consultancy experience in economic infrastructure and finance, with a focus on the transport sector:

  • Expert support to multi-national infrastructure operators, developers, government organisations and financial institutions, based on a detailed understanding of over 100 privately financed transport projects.
  • Track record in delivering robust commercial traffic and revenue analysis for toll road, managed lane, rail and parking projects.
  • Development of innovative methodological frameworks and analytic approaches, blending big data, consumer insight and pricing for revenue growth.
  • Expertise in financial and cash flow modelling with a proven ability to bring together engineering and financial concepts to produce robust and comprehensible modelling outputs.

Worldwide experience including the United Kingdom, Ireland, The Netherlands, France, Italy, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Portugal, USA, Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Nigeria, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Turkey, Peru, Thailand, China.

Marcos Casarin

Chief Economist for Latin America

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Marcos Casarin

Chief Economist for Latin America

Mexico City, Mexico

Margarida Secca Serra

Economist, Economic Impact

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Margarida Secca Serra

Economist, Economic Impact

London, United Kingdom

Margarida joined Oxford Economics in 2019 as a graduate in the London office.

She works in the Applied Economics team where she has been involved in a variety of projects, including a literature review on the effectiveness of soft drink taxation on health and revenue objectives, and a literature review on the benefits of digital services in Europe. She has also supported the econometric modelling of future demand for meat in the UK and several reports on the economic, societal, and cultural benefits of YouTube in different countries.

Before joining Oxford Economics, Margarida worked for the Portuguese Agency for Trade and Investment in London. She holds both a BSc and a MSc in Economics from NOVA SBE and while completing her dissertation, she did an internship at the Portuguese Ministry of Economy.

Mariel Povolny

Research Associate, Thought Leadership

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Mariel Povolny

Research Associate, Thought Leadership

New York, United States

Mariel works with the Thought Leadership team on a range of global research programs and assists with hypothesis drafting, survey design, and data analysis. Mariel joined OE from Catholic Charities, where she case-managed a disaster relief program for undocumented New Yorkers. She graduated from McGill University in 2021 with a degree in International Development Studies.

Mark Killion

Director of US Industry Services

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Mark Killion

Director of US Industry Services

Philadelphia, United States

Mark Killion, CFA, is Director of Director of US Industry Services at Oxford Economics, with extensive experience in research and modelling for economics and finance, also skilled in the presentation of insightful conclusions and strategies. Killion brings value to companies and governments by developing state-of-the-art products that use innovative metrics to reliably forecast market conditions, and benchmark business performances.

Matthew Dass

Associate Director, Tourism Economics

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Matthew Dass

Associate Director, Tourism Economics

Belfast, United Kingdom

Since joining Oxford Economics Matthew has built on his expertise in economic consultancy,​ developing a specialty in economic impact assessments, cost-benefit analysis and policy development. Currently, Matthew helps lead the EMEA tourism consultancy unit within Oxford Economics.

Matthew has completed a number of tourism impact and policy studies for destinations around the world as well as for discrete parts of the accommodation and aviation sectors. He has also been the lead analyst for the development of a number of tourism satellite accounts and has been heavily involved in our work to assess the total economic value of various cultural and environmental assets.

Previously Matthew worked at KPMG, where he focused on winning and delivering economic consultancy work in key local, national and European markets. Matthew holds a first-class economics degree from the University of Ulster.

Matthew Davis

Senior Associate Director, UK&I Corporate

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Matthew Davis

Senior Associate Director, UK&I Corporate

London, United Kingdom

Matthew is based in our London office and leads the Business Development team with responsibilities for corporate and government clients in the UK & Ireland. Having joined Oxford Economics in 2015 he has extensive experience and knowledge in building tailored solutions  for clients within both the public and private sectors and has a passion for establishing and maintaining lasting relationships with clients. Matthew holds a degree in Politics and International Relations from the University of Kent. 

Matthew Pritchard

Head of Business Development, Middle East

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Matthew Pritchard

Head of Business Development, Middle East

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Matthew heads-up the subscriptions sales team in the Middle East and is responsible for strategic and commercial activities across the region. He joined the team in 2021 and is based in our Dubai office. Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Matthew was a Sales Director at Fitch Solutions covering business development across the Middle East having moved to Dubai from London to help set-up their UAE office in 2015. Matthew holds a Master’s degree in Management (with a speciality in International Business) and a Batchelor’s degree in Philosophy, both from the University of Sheffield.

Matthew Smith

Software Developer

Matthew Smith

Software Developer

Newport, United Kingdom

Experienced Software Developer. Skilled across the board with coding experiences in C++, C#, JAVA. Heavily usage of GIT, TFS, JIRA.

Matthew Tinsley

Lead Economist, Economics & Sustainability

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Matthew Tinsley

Lead Economist, Economics & Sustainability

London, United Kingdom

Matt joined Oxford Economics' Economic Impact team in 2014. In his time with the company, he has worked on a diverse range of Economic Impact studies, including in the creative industries, tourism and retail sectors.

Between 2019 and 2022, Matt was based in our Singapore office, supporting the development of a specialist Economic Impact team there, before relocating back to London to work in the Economics and Sustainability team. Matt holds both a BSc (Hons) and an MSc (Hons) in Economics, from the University of Bristol.

Maximilian Douglas Carl Vickers

Research Associate

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Maximilian Douglas Carl Vickers

Research Associate

London, United Kingdom

Max is based in the London office and supports the Thought Leadership team across business sectors and disciplines. Max graduated from the University of Warwick with a BA in Politics, International Studies and Quantitative Methods and an MSc in Behavioural and Data Science.

Michael Davenport

Economist, Canada

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Michael Davenport

Economist, Canada

Toronto, Canada

Michael is an Economist with a particular focus on the Canadian economy. He primarily supports the Director of Canada Economics in producing macroeconomic research and forecasts, monitoring the Canadian economy, and liaising with clients and the media.

Michael first joined Oxford Economics Canada as an Economic Research Analyst Intern in the Toronto office in early 2019 and has since been promoted to an Economist. Michael holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Financial Management from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Michael Kleiman
Michael Kleiman

Head of Macro Consulting, Americas

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Michael Kleiman

Michael Kleiman

Head of Macro Consulting, Americas

New York, United States

Michael Kleiman is an Associate Director and leads the Macroeconomic Consulting team in North America. Since joining Oxford Economics in 2014 Mike has led a variety of consulting projects, including assessments of trade policy, energy policy, and climate regulation. Mike also led the development of Oxford Economics’ Canadian Provincial and Territorial Model (CPTM), a large-scale, detailed bottom-up model of the Canadian economy covering all thirteen provinces and territories.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Mike worked as an economist in the New York representative office of the Banca d'Italia covering macroeconomic, political, and financial system issues in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. He holds a Masters degree in Economics from New York University and a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering from Tufts University.

Michael Saunders

Senior Economic Advisor

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Michael Saunders

Senior Economic Advisor

London, United Kingdom

Currently, Senior Advisor at Oxford Economics, covering UK and global economic issues. Ex-Monetary Policy Committee at Bank of England (2016-22), part of Committee responsible for setting UK monetary policy. UK economist at Citi (1990-2016), where I was also a Managing Director and, from 1997-2016, Head of European Economics. 1988-90, UK economist at Greenwell Montagu, 1986-88 researcher at Institute for Fiscal Studies. Studied econometrics at LSE.

Michael Zielenziger

Editor at large, Thought Leadership

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Michael Zielenziger

Editor at large, Thought Leadership

San Francisco, United States

Michael Zielenziger works on a wide range of studies, including supply chain issues, and the impact of cloud computing on operations, insurance and finance.

He is a former Tokyo bureau chief for Knight Ridder Newspapers and the author of Shutting out the Sun: How Japan Created its own Lost Generation, which describes the social malaise that now confronts an ageing Japan. He was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for his reporting from China, and part of two Pulitzer Prize-winning teams while a correspondent for the San Jose Mercury News. He was part of an Oxford Economics team that won the 2019/20 Rybczynski prize for analyzing the impacts of robotics on the global workforce.

Michael was also an editor with the McKinsey Global Institute, based in San Francisco, and is a former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He is a graduate of Princeton University

Michele Wortley

Account Manager, OE Africa

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Michele Wortley

Account Manager, OE Africa

Paarl, South Africa

Michele started working for Oxford Economics in 2015 as Client Services Executive. In this role she supported account managers with administrative functions aimed at retaining clients and growing the business. Her contribution to Oxford Economics Africa’s growth has led to her being promoted to Account Manager in 2022. In her new role she is responsible for all account management activities which include client relationships, secure renewals and growing the book of business.

Morgan Rooney

Assistant Economist, Economic Impact

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Morgan Rooney

Assistant Economist, Economic Impact

London, United Kingdom

Morgan works as an Assistant Economist, having also previously worked as a Research Assistant, both for the Economic Impact Consulting team. During this time, she has worked on projects ranging from the economic impact of the aviation industry worldwide to the economic impact of BP in the UK.

She also worked as an Analyst in the field of competition economics at Compass Lexecon, specialising in cartel damages, and in the finance department of Hitachi Vantara. She holds a First-Class BSc (Hons) and MPhil in Economics from the University of Surrey and the University of Cambridge respectively.

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