Lord Nick Stern of Brentford FBA

India; climate change; economic development and growth; economic theory; economics; government; public policy and the role of the state and economies in transition;tax reform
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1993
Subjects
Economics, Politics

Summary

Lord Stern is a leading British economist and academic. Since 2007 he has been the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, and also Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught and researched at universities around the world including Oxford, Warwick, MIT, the Collège de France and the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, the People's University of China and the Indian Statistical Institute. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford in 2007. He served as President of the British Academy from 2013–2017 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 2014. He has made a major contribution to the economics of public policy and to development economics. As head of the Government Economic Service, he led the ground-breaking Stern Review on the economics of climate change, published in 2006, which has had great influence around the world. He has been Chief Economist of the EBRD and of the World Bank and has served as adviser to governments, businesses and NGOs in many countries and as Second Permanent Secretary of the UK Treasury. He is Deputy Chair of the Trustees of the British Museum.

Current post

IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, London School of Economics; Past President, British Academy

Past appointments

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London IG Patel Professor of Economics & Government

2007 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics

2000 - 2007

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics

1986 - 1997

University of Warwick Professor of Economics

1978 - 1987

University of Cambridge University Lecturer

1970 - 1977

Publications

The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review

Nicholas Stern - Published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press

A Strategy for Development

Nicholas Stern - Published in 2002 by The World Bank

The Theory of Taxation for Developing Countries

Edited by David Newbury and Nicholas Stern - Published in 1987 by Oxford University Press

Palanpur: The Economy of an Indian Village

Christopher Bliss; Nicholas Stern - Published in 1982 by Oxford University Press

Productivity, wages and nutrition

Christopher Bliss; Nicholas Stern - Published in 1978 by Journal of Development Economics

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The comparative political economy of the developed democracies; the study of European politics and public policy-making; comparative institutional analysis and problems of social inequality

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Professor Richard English FBA

Modern Irish and British politics and history; nationalism, political violence, and intellectual history; the politics and history of terrorism

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Professor Arend Lijphart FBA

Western Europe Australia and New Zealand

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