Timothy Besley#
| Membership Number: | 6262 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | ECONOMICS, BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.lse.ac.uk/economics/people/faculty/tim-besley |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8923-6372 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 School Professor of Economics and Political Science, LSE
- 2015 W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics, LSE
- 1995 - 2012 Professor of Economics, LSE
- 1989 - 1995 Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University
- 1984 - 1989 Fellow All Souls College, Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Development and growth
- Political Economy
- Public economics
Honours and Awards
- 2005 Yrjo Jansson Award
- 2006 Foreign Honorary Member, American Economic Association
- 2001 Fellow, British Academy
- 2014 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2000 Fellow, Econometric Society
- President, European Economic Association (2010), International Economic Association (2014 - 2017), Econometric Society (2018), Royal Economic Society (2021 - 2022)
- 2010 Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- 2018 Knight Bachelor
- Honorary Doctor, University of Zurich
