Simon Halliday is an accomplished associate professor of economic education at the University of Bristol. He specializes in econometrics, behavioral economics, experimental economics, development economics, microeconomic theory, evolutionary economics, industrial organization, theory of the firm, R, Stata, and LaTex. His education is versatile, having studied a PhD in experimental, evolutionary, and behavioral economics at the University of Siena, a Master of Commerce in economics, a Master of Arts in creative writing, a Bachelor of Commerce in economics, and a Bachelor of Social Sciences in economics and English literature at the University of Cape Town. Simon has a strong research background, having worked with the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU) on the Quality of Life Survey and on data analysis using micro-econometric methods. Simon is fluent in English, Italian, and Afrikaans, with conversational abilities in French and a beginner's level of Spanish.