Flavio Toxvaerd is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge and a fellow of Clare College. He holds degrees from the University of Copenhagen (BSc Economics, MSc Economics), the London School of Economics (MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics) and the London Business School (PhD Economics). His research interests span economics and epidemiology, with an emphasis on the modelling of behaviour, disease dynamics and infection control (NPIs, lockdowns, vaccines and therapeutics). His work has been published both in economics journals and in outlets such as Epidemics and the Journal of Theoretical Biology.
He is an Affiliated Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. He served as Senior Economic Advisor to the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance, which was set up by HM Government in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust. He is currently the inaugural UKRI Policy Fellow in Competition and Productivity Economics and has also been a member of the Academic Panel, both with the Competition and Markets Authority.
