Alex is an economist who is interested in market design as well as social and economic networks. He is a member of the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at the Oxford Martin School, and of the Oxford Martin Programme on Integrating Renewable Energy. In February 2018 he was appointed Deputy Director of INET's Economics of Sustainability Programme at INET.

Alex looks at how best to run complex auctions and how networks shape the diffusion of innovations. Moreover, he works on climate change policy.

Before coming to INET, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Laboratory for Information and Decision System at M.I.T. and a Visiting Business Fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He received a BSc in Economics (2008) from the L.S.E. and MPhil (2010) and DPhil in Economics (2013) from the University of Oxford.