Carsten is associate director for economic policy and AI at IPPR.

He leads the economy team and is responsible for IPPR's economic policy work, including macroeconomics, growth and fiscal policy. This also includes IPPR's work on the economic and societal impacts of AI. He is also a lecturer in economics at the University of Bayreuth, Germany.

Carsten has published reports on a wide range of macroeconomic policy issues and AI policy at IPPR. Before, Carsten worked at the Bank of England on international macroeconomics, financial regulation, financial risks from climate change, and the regulation of AI in finance. Carsten also previously worked at the International Monetary Fund on fiscal policy.