Priscillia Hunt

Biography

Priscillia Hunt is an economist on the Communities, Safety and Justice team at RAND Europe and a research fellow with the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). Her current work focuses on the trade of illicit goods, informal labour markets and police workforce management. Before joining RAND, Hunt was a researcher assessing the economic implications of intellectual property rights and a teaching assistant in micro- and macro-economics and strategy/game theory (at Warwick and London School of Economics). In the years prior, she performed research on consumer living indices, economic impacts from naval base closures, and impacts of changes to health benefits. She has also worked in the private sector in purchasing, logistics, and supply chain management in the sporting goods sector. Hunt received a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Warwick; her thesis examined the well-being and wage effects associated with immigrants to the UK.