Creative Economic Conference: Universal Basic Income

Kate Pickett is Professor of Epidemiology, Deputy Director of the Centre for Future Health, and Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Anthropocene Biodiversity, all at the University of York.  Kate is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, of the UK Faculty of Public Health and the British Academy of Social Sciences. She is co-author, with Richard Wilkinson, of the worldwide best-selling The Spirit Level (2009) and The Inner Level (2018). The Spirit Level was awarded Publication of the Year by the Political Studies Association, chosen as one of the Top Ten Books of the Decade by the New Statesman, and one of the top 100 books of the century by the Guardian. She is a co-founder and patron of The Equality Trust.  Kate is a social epidemiologist with a focus on the social determinants of health and health inequalities and works closely with the Born in Bradford study. 

PhD Heikki Hiilamo works as a research professor at National Institute for Health and Welfare and as a professor of social policy at University of Helsinki. Previously Hiilamo has worked as research professor at Social Insurance Institution on Finland. He has worked as visiting professor at University of California San Francisco and VID Specialized University Oslo. Hiilamo’s research interests include basic income, family policy, poverty, inequality, welfare state research and tobacco control. His articles have appeared in leading international journals including Journal of Social Policy, Journal of European Social Policy, International Journal of Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health and Social Science and Medicine. In 2018 he published a book on household debts for Edward Elgar. Hiilamo’s next book on Participation Income — An Alternative to Basic Income for Poverty Reduction in the Digital Age will be published in August 2022 (Participation Income (e-elgar.com)). In 2016 Hiilamo was awarded with State Award for Public Information.