Geoff is an ESRC-funded Ph.D. student at the University of Strathclyde and a Knowledge Exchange Assistant in the Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI). His research expertise is in Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) modeling. In his Ph.D., Geoff has investigated the trade impacts of the New Northern Ireland Protocol, adapted reference-dependent consumption assumptions to a CGE model, and is currently working on theoretical monetary union models. As a Knowledge Exchange Assistant, Geoff’s initial work has been to help to develop a monopolistic competition model of Scotland for future trade research for the CITP project. Before his Ph.D., Geoff completed a dissertation evaluating the implications of the great financial crisis on convergence in the European Union. He also worked on fiscal policy modeling as a research assistant for the FAI.

2019 BA in Economics and Finance, University of Strathclyde, awarded with distinction

2020 MSc in Economics, University of Edinburgh, awarded with distinction

2022 Associate Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy 

Geoff is interested in applied trade topics, behavioral macroeconomics, and monetary union theory. He has focused on the impacts of trade policies such as the new Northern Ireland Protocol on sectoral and aggregate macroeconomic variables. Geoff is also interested in the implications of structural asymmetries in monetary unions to the overall welfare and the optimal policy mix.

Geoff has tutored for undergraduate economics classes at the University of Strathclyde such as Macroeconomics 2 (covering topics such as the IS-LM model) and Microeconomics 3 (covering topics such as Game Theory and Cost-benefit analysis). Geoff has also been the lead tutor for the University of Edinburgh's SGPE Econometrics 2 (Times-Series) MSC class and the University of Glasgow's Access Economics class an introductory Economics class.