Our Team

Joan Domene is the Chief Economist for Latin America and is responsible for developing Oxford Economics' view on the region. Joan is responsible for producing macroeconomic forecasts for Mexico. He manages a team of economists who produce regional and country-specific research on over 30 countries. Joan’s work also involves presenting the outlook to clients and liaising with the media. Joan joined Oxford Economics in 2019 as Senior Economist after 5 years at a Mexican private bank.

Joe is an Economist on the Global Industry Service at Oxford Economics. He is responsible for the sectoral forecasts of the extraction sector. Alongside that, he works on a number of bespoke projects with a focus on the United States.

Before joining Oxford Economics, he worked for two years as a consultant at Applied Economics Consulting Group in Texas. Joe holds a MA and BA in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin. He is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.

Johanna Neuhoff is Director for economic consulting services in Continental Europe. She is an expert evaluating the impact of policy changes, in forecasting and scenario building as well as in economic impact assessments. Her extensive knowledge in the real estate, housing, mobility/transport, and the green economy sector helped her in leading several complex and international consulting projects for public and private clients.

Prior to Oxford Economics, Johanna Neuhoff worked at DIW Econ, the consultancy firm of the German Institute for Economic Research, and two boutique consultancy firms. Johanna Neuhoff holds a Diploma with a focus on social and political sciences in Economics from the University of Potsdam, Germany, and a Master’s Degree in Economics from the University of Milwaukee-Wisconsin, USA, - both degrees with special distinction.

John Canavan is the Lead Financial Market Analyst in the Oxford Economics' Macroeconomic and Investor Services group. In that role, he is responsible for the regular coverage of the financial market outlook, focusing on sovereign debt markets. John is also responsible for the weekly SMRA/OE Portfolio Manager Survey, which has been gauging the outlook of fixed-income portfolio managers since 1991.

Prior to working at Oxford Economics, John was the Lead Market Analyst at Stone & McCarthy Research Associates for more than 25 years and worked at Merrill Lynch before that.

John is a part of our US East Coast asset management team covering areas including Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine and Rhode Island.

John oversees Thought Leadership projects with EMEA-based clients. He works across business sectors and disciplines, but specialises in issues relating to strategy and business operations, such as sustainability, digital transformation, employment and skills, finance, and performance management. He has directed the Thought Leadership contribution on some of Oxford Economics’ largest and most complex research programmes, for global consultancies and corporates, including Accenture, the Adecco Group, Cognizant, EY, Fujitsu and YouTube. Often this is in collaboration with his economist colleagues to blend qualitative and quantitative analysis, and to explore the impact of corporate actions at a business, industry and economy level.

John joined Oxford Economics in 2014, after 25 years as a Financial Controller, financial management consultant and, most recently, a thought leadership expert for IBM’s Institute for Business Value, focused on global public sector issues. John then worked on the independent Digital Government Review as input to the UK General Election. He is an Economics graduate from Sussex University and a Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA).

John Walker is Chairman of Oxford Economics, which he founded in 1981.

From 1973 to 1977, John worked in the UK Treasury, where he became an economic adviser in the short-term forecasting division. He then worked for the consultancy arm of The Economist Newspaper, before becoming a Special Adviser to the EEC Commission in Brussels in 1980, where he was co-ordinator of forecasts for all the EEC countries and related forecasts for the US and Japan.

John returned to the UK in 1983 to work full-time for Oxford Economic Forecasting. He has headed Oxford's move into international forecasting, developing strong links with economists around the world and co-ordinating the development of the PC versions of the Oxford models that are now widely used in the UK and the rest of the world. As well as being a much-respected commentator on global economic prospects, John leads major consultancy projects with government departments and multinational companies from Europe and the United States on issues ranging from international capital flows to developments in the Middle East economies.

As a lead data scientist at Oxford Economics, Jordan has designed key architecture and data transformation processes that have enhanced the toolkits with which economic consultants can process, access and visualise data. He has launched robust database infrastructure with associated pipelines and scripting.

Jordan is excellent at utilising his broad-ranging programming skills to produce innovative solutions to complex mathematical problems and then presenting them to clients in an easily digestible format, through effective use of data visualisations.

Justine is a Human Resources Operations Lead who joined our New York offices in October 2018. She has a degree in business administration with a focus on hospitality administration and management.

Kerry leads a team specialising in sub-national economic analysis and forecasting. She is a widely respected expert on local and regional model development and is responsible for Oxford Economics’ UK Regional Forecasting Service and its local authority equivalent. Kerry also manages a range of local economic consultancy projects for both public and private sector clients.

Kiki is a macroeconomist in the Global Macro team in London. She is responsible for producing macro research at a global level and managing the global macro forecast round. Previously Kiki worked on the Global Industry team, generating forecasts and providing narratives for the transportation and logistics sector. She was also engaged in various consultancy projects and industry research.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics in 2021, Kiki worked at the company in 2016 as part of her industrial placement year. During her 13-month internship, Kiki was responsible for macroeconomic forecasts for several countries and industry forecasts for the intermediate goods sector.

Kiki holds an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BSc in Economics with Industrial Experience from the University of Exeter.

Kristian leads Oxford Economics Australia's Consulting team, working with public and private sector leaders to help them prepare for the future by applying relevant economic theory and forecasts to inform effective policy and business strategy development.

Kristin is a Property Economist within the Building & Property Forecasting team. She has been involved in forecasting, analysis, writing and support work for various commercial property reports over the past 16+ years.

Kristin's background is in economics and she is responsible for data collection and analysis, maintaining databases, conducting econometric analysis, forecasting and writing, preparing charts and tables for our subscription products in the non-residential sector.

Kristina Ballm is Financial Controller at Oxford Economics Australia and is responsible for the finance and administrative area of the business.

Prior to joining Oxford Economics Australia June 2018 she worked as a Financial Controller at RFi Group in Sydney and Kuoni Global Travel Services in London. Kristina is a Certified Chartered Accountant having gained her ACCA membership in the UK. She also holds a bachelors degree in economics from Kaunas University of Technology.

Lauren Braniff is a Senior Economist on the EMEA macro consulting team, based in Belfast. Lauren has been heavily involved in several large-scale industry and macroeconomic model-build projects, as well as a range of bespoke consultancy and research projects.

Laurence is a Lead Economist in the economic consulting team in New York. He was previously Director of Policy Research and Economics at Bird, the electric scooter company. He has extensive experience performing economic modeling, research and analysis for private and public organizations and has worked doing economic analysis for litigation consulting at companies in the US and UK. He has also lectured at the University of Johannesburg, the University of Cape Town, and NYU. He has a PhD in economics from Columbia University.

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