John oversees Thought Leadership projects with EMEA-based clients. He works across business sectors and disciplines, but specialises in issues relating to strategy and business operations, such as sustainability, digital transformation, employment and skills, finance, and performance management. He has directed the Thought Leadership contribution on some of Oxford Economics’ largest and most complex research programmes, for global consultancies and corporates, including Accenture, the Adecco Group, Cognizant, EY, Fujitsu and YouTube. Often this is in collaboration with his economist colleagues to blend qualitative and quantitative analysis, and to explore the impact of corporate actions at a business, industry and economy level.

John joined Oxford Economics in 2014, after 25 years as a Financial Controller, financial management consultant and, most recently, a thought leadership expert for IBM’s Institute for Business Value, focused on global public sector issues. John then worked on the independent Digital Government Review as input to the UK General Election. He is an Economics graduate from Sussex University and a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA).

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.

As a lead data scientist at Oxford Economics, Jordan has designed key architecture and data transformation processes that have enhanced the toolkits with which economic consultants can process, access and visualise data. He has launched robust database infrastructure with associated pipelines and scripting.

Jordan is excellent at utilising his broad-ranging programming skills to produce innovative solutions to complex mathematical problems and then presenting them to clients in an easily digestible format, through effective use of data visualisations.

Justine is a Human Resources Operations Lead who joined our New York offices in October 2018. She has a degree in business administration with a focus on hospitality administration and management.

Kayla supports global research studies for Thought Leadership, working across business sectors and disciplines, with a specific focus in finance. Based in our New York office, Kayla works closely with senior staff to aid in all aspects of research programs and produce multi-media deliverables. Kayla graduated from Colby College with degrees in Government and Global Studies.

Kerry leads a team specialising in sub-national economic analysis and forecasting. She is a widely respected expert on local and regional model development and is responsible for Oxford Economics’ UK Regional Forecasting Service and its local authority equivalent. Kerry also manages a range of local economic consultancy projects for both public and private sector clients.

Kiki is a macroeconomist in the Global Macro team in London. She is responsible for producing macro research at a global level and managing the global macro forecast round. Previously Kiki worked on the Global Industry team, generating forecasts and providing narratives for the transportation and logistics sector. She was also engaged in various consultancy projects and industry research.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics in 2021, Kiki worked at the company in 2016 as part of her industrial placement year. During her 13-month internship, Kiki was responsible for macroeconomic forecasts for several countries and industry forecasts for the intermediate goods sector.

Kiki holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BSc in Economics with Industrial Experience from the University of Exeter.

Kristian leads Oxford Economics Australia's Consulting team, working with public and private sector leaders to help them prepare for the future by applying relevant economic theory and forecasts to inform effective policy and business strategy development.

Kristin is a Property Economist within the Building & Property Forecasting team. She has been involved in forecasting, analysis, writing and support work for various commercial property reports over the past 16+ years.

Kristin's background is in economics and she is responsible for data collection and analysis, maintaining databases, conducting econometric analysis, forecasting and writing, preparing charts and tables for our subscription products in the non-residential sector.

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 Esterhuysen, who obtained his master's degree in economics from Stellenbosch University, is an economist at Oxford Economics Africa. He is responsible for providing coverage and analysis on various West African nations, and spearheads research in the region.

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.