Leading academics and experts who guide and support the Wealth Cap Project.
Economist & Philosopher
Utrecht University
Ingrid Robeyns is an economist, philosopher, author, and advocate of economic limitarianism. She holds the Chair in Ethics of Institutions at the Ethics Institute of Utrecht University. Much of her research over the past 20 years has focused on the capability approach, social justice, and desirable institutional change. She is the author of the acclaimed book Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth.
Jean Monnet Professor of EU Law & Policy
HEC Paris & Harvard University
Alberto Alemanno is the Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law & Policy at HEC Paris and Democracy Fellow at Harvard University. He's the author of more than sixty scientific articles and a dozen books. Alberto's research has been centred on how the law may be used to improve people's lives, in particular through the adoption of power-shifting reforms countering social, health, economic, and political disparities of access within society.
Assistant Professor of Financial Economics
Imperial College Business School
Clara Martínez-Toledano is an Assistant Professor of Financial Economics at Imperial College Business School and Wealth Distribution and Political Cleavages Coordinator at WID.world. She is also a CEPR and CESifo Research Affiliate and a Research Fellow at the EU Tax Observatory. Her research agenda mainly focuses on studying the determinants of economic inequalities within and across countries, in particular, those enabled by political and financial institutions.
Full Professor of Economics
Universidad de Alcalá
Olga Cantó Sánchez is Full Professor of Economics at the Universidad de Alcalá (Madrid) and one of Spain's leading experts on inequality, poverty, and income distribution. She has published widely in top international economics journals, contributed to major policy reports, and serves in senior advisory and editorial roles for leading academic and public institutions, including Spain's Independent Fiscal Responsibility Authority and the Ministry of Economy.
Economist
Wealth Distribution Expert
Martin Schürz is an economist and expert in wealth distribution and extreme wealth, combining empirical research with broader reflections on the social and psychological dynamics of inequality. He received the Progressive Economy Award of the European Parliament in 2015 together with Pirmin Fessler. In 2019, he was awarded the Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book for Überreichtum.
Researcher & Consultant
Democratic Innovations
Tamara Ehs is a researcher and consultant for democratic innovations in Austria, Germany and Central Europe as well as associate fellow with the Academy of International Affairs in Bonn. Being a member of the European Forum Alpbach's scientific advisory board she is a mentor at 'Alpbach IDEAS' where the Wealth Cap Project originated from.
Associate Professor
London School of Economics
Tania Burchardt is Associate Director of the Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE), Deputy Director of STICERD, and an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. She is a commissioning editor of the LSE Public Policy Review, and an associate of the International Inequalities Institute at LSE.
