I joined the University of Reading in 2015 and have been a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development since then. Before joining reading, I did a PhD at the University of Trento (Thesis title: “An analysis of the role of financialisation, China and stockholding in agricultural commodity price movements”. From 1998 to 2010, I worked as a statistician and economist at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).