Kristina Ballm is Financial Controller at Oxford Economics Australia and is responsible for the finance and administrative area of the business.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics Australia June 2018 she worked as a Financial Controller at RFi Group in Sydney and Kuoni Global Travel Services in London. Kristina is a Certified Chartered Accountant having gained her ACCA membership in the UK. She also holds a bachelors degree in economics from Kaunas University of Technology.

Lauren Braniff is a Senior Economist on the EMEA macro consulting team, based in Belfast. Lauren has been heavily involved in several large-scale industry and macroeconomic model-build projects, as well as a range of bespoke consultancy and research projects.

Laurence is a Lead Economist in the economic consulting team in New York. He was previously Director of Policy Research and Economics at Bird, the electric scooter company. He has extensive experience performing economic modeling, research and analysis for private and public organizations and has worked doing economic analysis for litigation consulting at companies in the US and UK. He has also lectured at the University of Johannesburg, the University of Cape Town, and NYU. He has a PhD in economics from Columbia University.

Lawrence Harper-Scott is a senior economist, he primarily produces forecasts for regions in the Nordics and Central & Eastern Europe. Before joining Oxford Economics Lawrence graduated from Loughborough University with a degree in Economics.

Lee has over 20 years experience in researching and forecasting Australian property markets, particularly in non-residential sectors. He is responsible for managing and producing a number of subscription services across Australia’s commercial property markets.

Lee’s current focus is on the Sydney and Perth office property markets, as well as prospects for the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane industrial property markets. Lee also contributes to consulting work, including the financial evaluation of commercial development, the economic impact of major projects and strategic employment studies.

Leeuwner, who joined Oxford Economics Africa in July 2020, holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Stellenbosch. He is the primary economist for Côte d’Ivoire, Cameroon, and Gabon, as well as a key member of the company’s consulting team. Before joining the company, he worked in the trading team at a top asset management firm.

Leo is a Senior Economist within the macroeconomics forecasting division of Oxford Economics. He is based in Paris and is responsible for producing macroeconomic forecasts for France.

Before joining Oxford Economics, Leo worked for seven years as an economist across various organizations, including the French Treasury, the asset management firm Covéa Finance and the economic consultancy Centolla. Léo holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics, as well as the Ecole normale supérieure and Sciences Po in Lyon.

As one of our most perennial employees, Leonardo heads up our East Coast Account Direction and new opportunities in various corporate, government and non-profit sectors, with over 20 years of experience in the Industry.

Leonardo holds a BA in International Relations & German with study and working experiences in Argentina, Germany, Spain and the US.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Leonardo worked for other organizations with the responsibility of looking over all of EMEA in many different Industries.

He is a native Spanish and English speaker with a good knowledge of German and Italian.

Liam has worked in the Scenarios, Stress Testing and Financial Modelling team since he joined Oxford Economics in 2017. He develops regulatory scenarios for financial clients including for IFRS9 and stress testing. He is also responsible for overseeing model development projects to enhance the financial market coverage on the Global Economic Model and building bespoke macro-financial models for clients.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics, Liam gained an undergraduate degree in Economics from the University of Bath. As part of the course, he spent a placement year working at the Bank of England where he received the Governor’s award for his contributions during the EU referendum. In 2021, he completed a MSc at the University of Amsterdam specialising in monetary theory.

]Lloyd Barton is Head of Thematic Macro Consulting at Oxford Economics, leading bespoke client research into long-term trends in the global economy and financial markets. His areas of specialism include macro forecasting & scenario analysis, global trade, banking & capital markets, real estate, and commercial advisory for infrastructure transactions.​ Lloyd holds degrees in Economics from the Universities of Cambridge and Warwick.

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 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.

Lucila holds a BA in Economics and a master’s degree in Economics of Public Policy from the Barcelona School of Economics. Her research focuses on emerging markets macro and strategy, along with country-specific coverage of Argentina and Uruguay. She joined Oxford Economics after working at one of LatAm’s top economic think tanks and several international organisations (ECLAC, UNDP, OECD).

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 assists clients in the corporate sector at Oxford Economics in gaining key insights from our forecasts and analyses, as well as understanding how to use economic insights to make strategic business decisions.

He is based in our London office. Prior to working in corporate advisory, Marcos was the chief economist and general manager for Oxford Economics in Latin America based in Mexico City, in charge of managing a team of economists producing research and forecasts for over 30 countries as well as leading several consultancy projects with major firms. Before joining Oxford Economics in 2012, Marcos completed his MSc in Economics & Finance at the Barcelona School of Economics and worked at the Brazilian Development Bank in Rio de Janeiro. Marcos is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Maree is a senior economist in the property and building forecasting team at Oxford Economics Australia, analysing demographic trends, housing markets and policy shifts. Having worked in industry economics for 10 years, Maree’s primary responsibility is residential property forecasts which are distributed through our subscription products, most notably the recently released ResRadar.

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.

Mark Britton is a Director within Oxford Economics’ Cities Team. He leads a team of economists to provide clients with global city-level forecasts and research through a range of subscription products and consultancy projects.

Mark has more than 15 years’ experience in regional forecasting, model building and economic analysis for a broad range of clients across both the public and private sectors. He has a keen interest in developing quantitative solutions using a range of data science, econometric and geospatial techniques to provide organisations around the world with the tools to make more informed location decisions.

Mark recently coordinated the development of a new climate scenario service, which quantifies the impact of climate-related transition and physical risks on city and regional economies. He has led major consultancy projects, with recent examples including socioeconomic scenario analysis to support the development of city masterplans in the Middle East; commercial real estate forecasting; and location benchmarking to support strategic investment decisions.

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.

Mateusz Urban is a Senior Economist within the macro forecasting division of Oxford Economics. He is providing coverage of Poland and Hungary, alongside a host of smaller economies. Beyond that, he is producing thematic research on the ECB and the eurozone. He is based in Frankfurt and Warsaw.

Previously, he was working in the Scenarios, Stress Testing and Financial Modelling team in London. Before joining Oxford Economics, he interned at Deloitte, working in the economic analysis team, and at Oxera, a consultancy, where he focused on economic modelling and forecasting. Mateusz holds a MA in Political Economy degree from Duke University and a first-class BSc in Economics degree from the University of Nottingham.