Professor Sir David Hendry FBA

David F. Hendry has been Professor of Economics and Fellow of Nuffield College, University of Oxford since 1982 and was Head of Department from 2001-2007. He was Leverhulme Personal Research Professor of Economics there from 1995-2000, Professor of Econometrics at LSE, 1977-1981, and a Professor of Economics, University of California at San Diego, 1989-1990. He is currently the Director of the Programme for Economic Modeling, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School. He is an Honorary Vice-President and past President of the Royal Economic Society; a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Academy of Social Sciences and Journal of Econometrics, and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, as well as an Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Forecasters. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Economic and Social Research Council in 2014, and the Isaac Kerstenetzky Scholarly Achievement Award in 2012, has been awarded eight Honorary Doctorates, is a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate and is one of the World's 200 most cited Economists according to the ISI. He was knighted in 2009 for services to social science.