Professor Rachel Griffith FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2009
- Subjects
- Economics
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History
Summary
Rachel is Research Director of the IFS. She is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester, Editor of the Economic Journal and a Research Fellow of CEPR. Rachel won the Birgit Grodal award in 2014 and was awarded a CBE in Queen's Birthday Honours 2015 for services to economic policy. Her research considers the relationship between government policy and economic performance. Her specific interests relate to empirical industrial organisation, the retail food sector, nutrition, innovation, productivity and corporate tax.
Current post
Research Director, Institute for Fiscal Studies; Professor of Economics, The University of Manchester
Past appointments
Institute for Fiscal Studies Research Director
2011 -
University of Manchester Professor
2011 -
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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
Professor Jane Humphries FBA
Eighteenth & nineteenth century economic history: industrialization; wellbeing; labour markets; women's work and family lives; child labour; anthropometrics
