Tim Besley
Tim Besley | |
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Tim Besley in 2022 | |
| Born | 14 September 1960 Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Doctoral advisor | W.M. Gorman |
| Influences | Amartya Sen James Mirrlees James M. Buchanan |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political economics |
| Institutions | London School of Economics Princeton University All Souls College, Oxford |
| Doctoral students | Rohini Pande Dave Donaldson Imran Rasul |
| Notable ideas | Citizen-candidate model, Political Agency Models, Economics of State Capacity |
| Awards | Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2005) John von Neumann Award (2010) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022) |
| Website | |
Sir Timothy John Besley, CBE, FBA (born 14 September 1960) is a British academic economist who is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).
He is also a commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission, a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford since 2018, and has been the director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economic and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the LSE. He has served as president of the European Economic Association, the International Economic Association and the Econometric Society. He has been an editor of the American Economic Review and is a co-editor of the Annual Review of Economics. From 2006 to 2009 he was an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee. Besley has won the 2005 Yrjö Jahnsson Award and the 2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award among others.