The Economics Team
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Dr. Kevin Marsh: Chief Economist
Kevin’s research interests include the economic evaluation of public policy, in particular health and criminal justice interventions. He completed his PhD in Economics at the University of Bath, specialising in monetary techniques for valuing environmental resources. Kevin joined Matrix in 2003 following a year at the Social Disadvantage Research Centre, Oxford University. Kevin is an active member of the Campbell and Cochrane Economic Methods Group, and contributes to methodological development in the field of economic evaluation.
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Prof Paul Dolan: Chief Scientist
Paul Dolan is a Professor in the Department of Social Policy at the LSE. He has previously held academic posts at York, Newcastle, Sheffield and Imperial, and has been a visiting scholar at Princeton. Paul is recognized as one of the world’s leading health economists, and he received the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Economics in 2002. He has over 80 peer-reviewed journal publications in leading economics, health, and social science journals and has secured research grants from a range of funding bodies. He is currently on a part time secondment at the Cabinet Office as an expert advisor to the Behavioural Sciences Team.
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Dr. Leeza Osipenko: Principal Economist
Leeza’s work focuses on health technology assessment (HTA) and health economics. At Matrix Leeza focuses on managing and delivering health economics analysis, with particular emphasis on health technology assessment, at the highest level, in the UK and across Europe. Prior to joining Matrix, Leeza worked at the University of Warwick (Medical School) as Senior Research Fellow. Leeza has a BA (first) in Economics from Denison University (USA), MSc in Information Systems Management from Syracuse University (USA) and a PhD in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, USA).
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Evelina Bertranou: Senior Economist
Evelina is a Senior Economist at Matrix. Her work focuses on the economic evaluation of public policies and interventions. Evelina holds a BSc in Economics and an MA in Economics from Argentina, and she recently completed an MSc in Social Policy and Planning from the London School of Economics.
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Meena Venkatachalam: Economist
Meena joined the economics team after completing her Masters at The London School of Economics and Political Science in International Health Policy – Health Economics (LSE). Prior to LSE she worked within the Finance industry in New York, USA. She worked full-time at Bank of America and successfully completed internships at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch.
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