Festival of Economics @economicsfestival.bsky.social 16-18 November 2026 | Bristol, UK
www.economicsfestival.co.uk
Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com Historian | Author of ‘Utopia for Realists’ (2014), ‘Humankind’ (2020) and ‘Moral Ambition’ (2025) | Co-founder of The School for Moral Ambition | moralambition.org | rutgerbregman.com
📖 substack.com/@rutgerbregman
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Andreas Fuchs @fuchsa.bsky.social Professor of Development Economics and Global Political Economy at University of Göttingen. Director of CeMEAS and Kiel Institute China Initiative. #research
Lisa Dellmuth @lisadellmuth.bsky.social International Relations Prof @stockholm-uni.bsky.social | Co-director Stockholm Center on Global Governance | lisadellmuth.se | Leads ERC-funded project PROTECT, explaining how local conditions affect public support for protectionism: tinyurl.com/rncy6s76
Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk Writer & speaker. Landscape, food, utopias, queer theory, imagination. Prof of Landscape Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture. Antifascist. Recent book: The Landscape of Utopia. At work on 'Reworlding: Planetarity & Future Imaginaries'.
Jeremy Farr @jeremyfarr.bsky.social Research Fellow on future food systems transformations ⚕️🌿 🏦 🌏 and archaeologist of past food systems 🔬🌾🏺
City St George’s Economics @cityeconomics.bsky.social Research and insights from the Department of Economics at City St George’s, a distinguished member of the University of London.
https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/schools/policy-global-affairs/economics#accordion576967-header576972
Nuffield College, Oxford @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social The official account of Nuffield College.
Nuffield College is a graduate college of the University of Oxford, dedicated to advanced study and innovative research in the social sciences.
PSA Environmental Politics Specialist Group @psaenvironmental.bsky.social We are the Environmental Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social)
Web: www.psa.ac.uk/specialist-groups/environmental-politics
Contact: envpol@sg.psa.ac.uk
Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co Hey, I'm a climate and energy writer / data analyst who focuses on corporate + govt accountability
Creator + curator of the Greensky feed: https://ketanjoshi.co/greensky/
Based in Oslo but write about US, Europe, Aus too - ketan.joshi85@gmail.com
Professor Chuixiang (Tree) Yi @qctree.bsky.social Earth resilience, tipping behavior, nonlinear thinking, stability analysis, climate change, photosynthesis, soil respiration, tree mortality, Fulbright Scholar
https://sites.google.com/view/chuixiangyi
Alessandro Sontuoso @sontuoso.bsky.social Associate Professor at City University London, Chapman University affiliate, former PPE Fellow at UPenn | Economic theory & experimentation | Researching epistemic, strategic, and ethical dimensions of individual action | sontuoso.info
KCL Alumni @kclalumni.bsky.social The official King's College London alumni Bluesky account. #ForeverKings🦁
@ceciliaalemany.bsky.social @ceciliaalemany.bsky.social UN Women Deputy Regional Director for the Americas and the Caribbean - posts on my own/posts are not endorsements
Kate Bird @katedevhub.bsky.social
Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social Director of the Public Good Narrative Project. Served as a Director at the UN, Oxfam, ActionAid & Save the Children. Fellow at Bellagio, Notre Dame & Bosch. Wrote How to Fight Inequality. Writing a new book.
Fred Carver @arbeider4fred.bsky.social Advice for hire. Occasional writing, editing, speaking. Atrocity Prevention, Peacekeeping, UN, South Asia. Based in Bergen, NO. https://frederichcarver.com
Maria Ron Balsera @mariaronbalsera.bsky.social Human Rights, Fiscal Justice, Education and International Development researcher and activist, PhD, works
@cesr.bsky.social
Views are my own. RTs not an endorsement.
Aarathi Krishnan @aarathikrishnan.bsky.social Executive Director at RAKSHA Intelligence Futures | Affiliate Cambridge Centre for Existential Risk | Ex UNDP, IFRC | Alumni Tech & Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School & Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University
https://www.rak-sha.com
Global Public Investment Network @globpubinvnet.bsky.social Global network of organizations passionate about transforming the international financial architecture for a safer and more equitable world
Centre for Human Security and Social Change @socialchangeltu.bsky.social A collaborative research centre at La Trobe University catalysing inclusive social change
Catarina Leão @catarinaleao.bsky.social Fellow in Advanced Quantitative Methods, Department of Methodology (LSE) | DPhil in Politics (Oxford)
Political Economy of Autocratic Legacies + Democratic Erosion
catarinaleao.com
Jago Dodson @urbanizationist.bsky.social Professor of Urban Policy, Melbourne, posting/following mostly academically on housing, transport, planning, infrastructure, energy, governance, geography, and climate.
If I followed you it is probably via a starter pack (not personal).
Also @ X, 🐘, 🪡
GPPi @gppi.bsky.social Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi), Berlin | Improving global governance through research, policy advice & debate. Learn more: gppi.net
Rachel M Gisselquist @rgisselquist.bsky.social Professor in Governance and Development @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Director, Governance and Social Development Resource Centre @gsdrc.org
Non-resident Senior Fellow, UNU-WIDER
From Honolulu, via Helsinki and beyond—now in the UK
Marie Beigelman @mariebgl.bsky.social Economic history, pol econ, gender. Assistant professor in economics @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social.
Prev @iast.fr @tse-fr.eu
🌐 https://mariebeigelman.github.io
King's QPE @kingsqpe.bsky.social Quantitative Political Economy Research Group at King's College London (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social).
A hybrid of econ and polisci (polisci topics, econ methods/theories).
https://sites.google.com/view/kingsqpe/home
Deborah Blum @deborahb.bsky.social Book author, toxicology journalist, fascinated by poison and murder (current book project), and, oh yeah, I'm the former director of the Knight Science Journalism program at MIT.
Tommy Andersson @proftommyandersson.bsky.social Professor in Economics at Lund University. Theoretical economist, market designer, policy advisor, author.
Webb: https://sites.google.com/site/tommyanderssonlunduniversity/home
Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Politics and Governance @cogitatiopag.bsky.social Politics and Governance is a peer-reviewed open access journal offering cutting-edge research from all areas of political science.
2023 Impact Factor: 2.5 (Q1)
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandgovernance
Karen Jeffrey @karenojeffrey.bsky.social Data Science and AI Fellow
University of Glasgow
AI, labour markets, & policy responses
karenjeffrey.github.io
Malte Dold @maltedold.bsky.social Worldly economist at Barnard College in NYC; working on topics at the intersection of economics, ethics, and psychology; PPE and history of thought aficionado 🦜
The Guardian @theguardian.com The need for independent journalism has never been greater. Become a Guardian supporter https://support.theguardian.com
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If you know you know @privatechand.bsky.social Historian at a US university. Posts about history, India, technology, extremism. Do not feel safe, due to past Hindutva harassment, sharing identity publicly.
Itai Sher @itaisher.bsky.social Economics and Ethics, UMass Amherst
Dr. Ruth D. Carlitz @ruthdcarlitz.bsky.social Political Scientist @ University of Amsterdam | Challah Baker | Rootless Cosmopolitan
TransitionZero @transitionzero.org ⚡️ Software to reduce the time to build clean energy at scale
🔗 www.transitionzero.org
Richard Murphy @richardjmurphy.bsky.social Economic justice campaigner. Professor of Accounting Practice, Sheffield University. Former chartered accountant. Political economist. Opinions all my own.
Gunnel Axelsson Nycander @gunnelact.bsky.social Policy adviser at Act Church of Sweden, passionate about global development, especially #socialprotection
Wilson King @wilsonmking.bsky.social PhD Student at Berkeley ARE • Former J-PAL/LSE • Development Economics, Global Health, Science of Science, et al • 🏃♂️🚵🗺🌈
Ben Butcher @benbutcher.bsky.social Data Editor at the Telegraph. Pro-cats and pro-naps.
Dr Gareth Horsfield @garethhorsfield.bsky.social International Development Consultant Based in Zimbabwe. Climate Adaptation, Resilience and Gender Specialist. Programme Development, Strategic Planning and Fundraising. Beit Fellow. Recipient UNDP Global Communications Award 2023. He/Him.
B @babshewitt.bsky.social Nature. International and Social Development. Social and Behaviour Change. Arts & Culture. Climate and Environment @FCDOgovUK Curious. Interested.
Anissa Bougrea @anissabougrea.bsky.social Slowly testing out this new horizon 🦋
PhD Fellow at @GIESGhent on Private Finance for #EUdev #IPE. (Ex-)Journalist. Decolonizing The University: https://open.spotify.com/show/1LV10lE8QMFEkVBvw2dIUp?si=GaEzEhY3QL28gXJM2AVJkA
Oliver Harman @oliverjharman.bsky.social Urbanisation, decentralisation and internationalisation.
Part time teacher @ KCL, LSE, ASE; part time economist @ IGC; part time researcher @ Oxford.
https://www.oliverharman.me/
Nick O'Donovan @nickod.bsky.social Political scientist and occasional policy wonk, interested in big tech, the digital economy, taxation and inequality. Author of Pursuing the Knowledge Economy: https://www.agendapub.com/page/detail/pursuing-the-knowledge-economy/?k=9781788215145
@DrNickOD
Dimitrios Minos @dminos.bsky.social Associate Professor in Economics at King's College London - Development Economics, Health Economics, Political Economy
Sam Brazys @sbrazys-ucd.bsky.social Semi-pro feed. Associate Professor and Vice-Principal Research, Impact and Innovation at University College Dublin, focusing on Aid, Trade, and Development. Editor Journal of International Development.
Dr Graham Lloyd-Jones @drgrahamlj.bsky.social Consultant Radiologist UK.
Medical imaging educator.
Founder/Director of radiologymasterclass.co.uk.
Investigating links between poor oral health and systemic disease | oral microbiome | COVID-19 & LongCOVID.
Oral Health Section Editor - Springer Nature
Alice Evans @draliceevans.bsky.social Visiting Associate Professor at Stanford University
Writing "The Great Gender Divergence"
Substack: www.ggd.world
Wonkhe @wonkhe.bsky.social Home of the higher education debate
www.wonkhe.com
Editor in Chief @markleach.bsky.social
Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social Professor of EU and Human Rights Law. Usual disclaimers. Latest book: European Union Law, 5th edition, co-edited with Catherine Barnard.
Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social Lover of finding out what people think. Director @moreincommonuk.bsky.social
https://www.moreincommon.org.uk/
Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social Irishman in London. Founder of award winning investigative news site Democracy for Sale https://democracyforsale.substack.com/
Soumaya Keynes @soumayakeynes.ft.com Author of "How to Win a Trade War"
FT econ columnist
Host of The Economics Show w/ Soumaya Keynes podcast
Singer-songwriter https://www.instagram.com/soumayakeynes/?hl=en and http://bit.ly/2Z6gvjp
Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social Midwest correspondent at The Economist, in Chicago. Before that, in London, Mumbai, Nairobi and DC.
Buy my book: http://shorturl.at/BJOUV
Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social Deputy director, Centre for European Reform, London @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social . Supporter of democracy, the rule of law, the EU & Ukraine. Opponent of authoritarianism, corruption & Putin's Russia.
Zoë Grünewald @zoegrunewald.bsky.social Political journalist & broadcaster |
Westminster Editor at the Lead UK |
Presenter on Fubar Radio |
Chatting on Oh God What Now |
Find my work and commission me here: https://www.zoegrunewald.com/
Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social Security correspondent at
@theipaper.com, author of 'Plotters: The UK Terrorists Who Failed'
sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social Writer | Senior Investigative Reporter at openDemocracy | Bylines in i; Observer; Guardian; The Times | BWLF | Book: Bodies Under Siege, Verso | Got a story? Email sian.norris(at)opendemocracy.net
George Peretz KC @georgeperetzkc.bsky.social KC (E&W) BL (Irl): public/constitutional law, competition, subsidies, tax, trade. Chair of the Society of Labour Lawyers. Views mine and not those of Monckton Chambers.
Sam Lowe @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social Trade policy. Partner @ Flint Global. Associate fellow @ Chatham House.
I have a Substack: https://mostfavourednation.substack.com
Colin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social Barrister, blogger and author of Welcome to Britain: Fixing Our Broken Immigration System. Fully updated paperback out now.
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University. Accusations of bad faith or lying = block.
Ellie Mae O'Hagan @elliemaeohagan.bsky.social I'm the programme lead for the UK energy team at E3G and an advisory board member for the Autonomy Institute. Personal account - random thoughts with a quarterly post about energy policy.
Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social Archaeologist, word-witcher, scicomm, consultancy
📚 KINDRED: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death & Art
🖋️ MATRIARCHA: Prehistory Re-imagined
🏛️ Honorary Researcher U. Cambridge & U. Liverpool
1/4 @trowelblazers.bsky.social
Rep: PEW Literary
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social Tracking the Right's journey after Brexit and also the culture war's highly charged boundaries. Once a Fellow of the Adam Smith Institute, now centrist. Telegraph watcher.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rolandmcs
buymeacoffee.com/rolandsmith
Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social Historian of modern Britain, singer and political nerd. Author of "Yes to Europe! The 1975 Referendum & Seventies Britain". "A jaw-dislocating page turner"(Andrew Marr). Deputy-director @mileendinstitute.bsky.social, Reader @QMHistory
Alexander Horne @legalmusings.bsky.social Barrister. Commentator. Visiting Prof @ Durham University. Former parliamentary lawyer & special adviser UK Parliament (JCHR, EU, Women & Equalities; International Agreements). Musings on law, politics & restaurants . Personal views.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social Director of Stand For All, freelance policy and comms specialist, posting predominately about immigration/asylum and trans/non-binary policy and rights, along with general rantings. (They/them). My views, no-one else would want them.
Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org King’s Counsel. Serious about Law, but only about Law.
General Editor of Tolley’s Employment Handbook.
Trustee of FRU
Member of Chelsea Pitch Owners board
Co-founder of Billable Hour Appeal.
Holger Hestermeyer @hhesterm.bsky.social Professor of Int’l & EU Law, Diplomatic Academy Vienna. Past: Prof., founding Director CIGAD at King's College London, specialist adviser House of Lords EU Select Committee, Référendaire CJEU
Dan Sabbagh @dansabbagh.bsky.social Journalist @guardian - defence and security editor. Based in London, travel to Ukraine and anywhere else when I can.... signal: londoncalling.77
Kenan Malik @kenanmalik.bsky.social Writer & Observer columnist. Latest book: Not So Black and White (Hurst). “Unsettles the pieties of contemporary race-talk” - Paul Gilroy. “A work of immense scholarship” – Jon Bloomfield. Website: https://kenanmalik.com/
Anthony Wells @anthonyjwells.bsky.social Global Head of Politics at YouGov. Dartfordian. Hates agree-disagree statements.
Joanna Hardy-Susskind @joannahs.bsky.social Barrister. I defend people.
David Anderson @bricksilk.bsky.social Lord Anderson of Ipswich KBE KC: barrister, cross-bench peer; HL Justice & Home Aff Cttee; Chair Inter Mediate, @uclei.bsky.social; Vis Prof KCL; ex-Indept Reviewer Terrorism, Prevent Commr, AFPS; history, nature, sea kayaking, Suffolk
Catherine Barnard @cbarnard.bsky.social Professor of EU law and Employment law, Trinity College Cambridge, senior fellow, UK in a Changing Europe. Knows a little bit about EU and Brexit things.
Ruth Fox @ruthfox.bsky.social Director of the Hansard Society, working to make Parliament more effective.
🎧 Co-host of the Parliament Matters podcast | https://hansardsociety.start.page/
Helen O'Hara @helenlohara.bsky.social Film journalist, author, podcaster, broadcaster, etc. Empire's Editor-at-Large. If you would like to give me work, have a look at helenohara.com
Christabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social Director of Research at ThinkLabour. Interested in politics and data. Interested in how people think about politics and data.
UCL Constitution Unit @conunitucl.bsky.social The UK's leading research centre on constitutional change, covering parliament, government, democracy, elections and more.
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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social Comics, music, books, film, photos, paintings & cartoons! Humanism & ASD too. A Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure. Hurrah!
Agnes C. Poirier @agnescpoirier.bsky.social Journalist, writer & broadcaster.
📚LEFT BANK, Arts, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950 (Bloomsbury)
📚NOTRE-DAME, The Soul of France (OneWorld)
✍️ 🎤 📺 UK and French politics, Arts and History
Jon Featonby @jonfeatonby.bsky.social I do refugee and asylum policy at the Refugee Council, so most likely a lot of the posts will be about that.
Graeme Cowie @woodstockjag.bsky.social Constitutional pedant, Partick Thistle-supporting masochist, atrocious recreational golfer.
Director and Secretary @thejagsfoundation.bsky.social
Latika M Bourke @latikambourke.com 📰 Writer-at-Large, The Nightly | London
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🎙️ Latika Takes: The Podcast on all apps
CJ McKinney @cjmckinney.bsky.social Parliamentary adviser on immigration and asylum. Child of the Common Travel Area. Views, if any, are my own. https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/authors/cj-mckinney/
Chai Patel @chaipatel.net Migration, human rights, public law. He/him.
Annette Dittert @annettedittert.bsky.social Senior Correspondent ARD London 2008- 2025 • previously Warsaw/New York • Loving London • Living on a Narrowboat • Also writing for Prospect/Blaetter and others.
Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social CEO @praxisprojects.bsky.social. Chair @refugeestogether.bsky.social. Brummie. All views own (subject to personal growth and development).
Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com Author 'Why Politicians Lie About Trade' | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM.
🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based.
Substack: substack.com/@dmitryopines
Media and training: explaintrade.com
Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com
Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social Journalist and author in London. LRB, Guardian Long Read and others. Books about refugees in Europe and Britain's far right. danieltrilling.co.uk for contact details etc
Miatta Fahnbulleh @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social Member of Parliament for Peckham
Minister for Devolution, Faith & Communities
Miatta.fahnbulleh.mp@parliament.uk
Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social Jonathan Wolff,
Political Philosopher.
Fellow British Academy
Emeritus Professor Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Wolfson College
President The Royal Institute of Philosophy
THFC supporter in 'what's football again?' mode.
#academic- P Paul Lewis @paullewis.bsky.social History of economic thought; social ontology; philosophy and methodology of economics; political economy of vocational education and training. Professor of Political Economy at King’s College London.
Governance and Local Development Institute @gldinstitute.bsky.social The Governance and Local Development Institute (GLD) is a research institute based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and at Cornell University, US. GLD aims to explain variations in governance and local development to promote global human welfare.
Dina Pomeranz @dinapomeranz.bsky.social Econ prof University of Zurich.
Faculty affiliate at JPAL, CEPR, CESifo.
Board member IIPF, Helvetas, GAIN.
#EconSky