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D’Maris Coffman is Professor of Economics and Finance at University College London where she is also Vice Dean Innovation & Enterprise at The Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment. In the UK, she is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Society of Antiquaries of London, the Royal Geographical Society, and the Academy of Social Sciences. She is also a Foreign Member of the Istituto Lombardo (Milan) and of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome) and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University (China). She is Editor-in-Chief of Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. She has published over 150 books, journal articles, and contributed essays, including most recently the first English translation (with Ali Kabiri and Nicholas Di Liberto) of Jean Lescure’s Des crises generales et périodiques de surproduction (General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction) for Anthem Book’s Economic Ideas That Built Europe series. Lescure was the first economist to use the term ‘crisis’ in the modern sense. She works across the fields of economic history, economic geography, infrastructure economics and environmental economics.
John Pelton’s first career was as a Royal Engineer. After attending the Army Staff College, he became involved in strategic planning and then moved onto leading complex programmes on operations around the world and in Defence procurement. John left the Army to join CH2M Hill where he led HS2’s Efficiency Challenge Programme before becoming the Managing Director of Crossrail’s Programme Partner, Transcend, (including delivering Crossrail’s innovation programme). He then led a Joint Venture delivering the Highways England’s Major Projects transformation programme followed the Jacobs Programme Partner team for the Palace of Westminster Restoration and Renewal programme before a stint as the Managing Director of the Parliament Estate. After a period as the Sponsorship Director for the Lower Thames Crossing project he led the East West Rail Programme Partner team before moving to Costain.
John is an Honorary Professor of Project and Construction Management at UCL focussing on the Major Infrastructure Delivery MBA programme. He is also a Policy Fellow at the ICE and sits on the Steering Committee for the Oxford University Business Economics Programme and is a part of the Southampton university Leaders and Entrepreneurs in Residence Programme.
