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I am Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and a Governing Body Fellow of St Antony’s College, both at the University of Oxford. I am also a member of the management committee of the European Studies Centre, an Associate Member of Nuffield College, and I am part of the editorial board of the Socio-Economic Review.

I received my PhD in European Political Economy from the London School of Economics and Political Science. I have previously held visiting positions at Harvard University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, Sciences Po Paris, the European University Institute, the Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo and the University of Konstanz.

My research analyses the political determinants and consequences of social and economic policy in advanced capitalist democracies. I am the author of three books, and my work has appeared in 72 publications, among them the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, the European Journal of Political Research, Perspectives on Politics, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) and World Politics.

My research has been cited more than 2,400 times, including by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Labour Organization, the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Commission, the European Parliament, the European Central Bank, the Royal Society of Arts and the UK House of Commons. It has been funded by the British Academy and recognised by the American Political Science Association and the European Network for Social Policy Analysis.

My most recent work shows that ageing democracies become gerontonomias in which grey power leads to democratically sustained economic stagnation. My concept of gerontonomia has been covered across 28 countries in 78 media outlets, from the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Economist, Bloomberg, The Atlantic and The Guardian to El País, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Libération, De Volkskrant, Internazionale, Politiken, Veja, Hürriyet, Kathimerini and JoongAng Ilbo. It has been discussed in eighteen languages, among them English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Chinese, Korean and Japanese. My book on ageing advanced capitalist democracies is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.