Dr Gavan Conlon is a Partner at London Economics, and co-head of the Education and Labour Markets Team. With a doctorate in economics, Gavan has worked for London Economics for 18 years, delivering more than 500 research projects, both in the UK and internationally. Gavan specialises in modelling higher education fees and funding arrangements across the four countries of the United Kingdom; delivering economic and social impact analyses for individual and groups of higher education institutions; and assessing the financial sustainability of higher education institutions.

Gavan has delivered analyses for a wide range of clients across the sector, including work for UK Department for Education, Universities UK, the Russell Group, the British Council, the European Commission, the Higher Education Policy Institute, the Office for Students, and more than 50 individual higher education institutions.