Timothy Besley - Curriculum Vitae#

Principal Current Position:

School Professor of Economics and Political Science & Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics, London School of Economics (Professor of Economics since 1995)

Education:

1983: B.A. (M.A., 1987) Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1st Class), Keble College, Oxford University; 1985: M.Phil., Economics, Oxford University; 1987: D.Phil., Economics, Oxford University.

Selected Honors/Awards:

Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2005); Fellow of the Econometric Society (2000); Fellow of the British Academy (2001); Foreign Honorary Member, American Economic Association (2007) and American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011), Knight Bachelor (2018).

Selected Past and Present Professional Activities:

Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 1988 - 1995; Director, STICERD, 2000 - 2012, 2020; Fellow, CEPR; Co-Chair, LSE Growth Commission; External Member, Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee 2006 - 2009; Member, National Infrastructure Commission, 2015-; Co-editor, American Economic Review, 1999 - 2005; President, European Economic Association (2010), President, International Economic Association (2014 - 2017); President, Econometric Society, 2018; President, Royal Economic Society, 2021 - 2022; Fellow, All Souls College Oxford, 1984 - 1991, 1995 - 2000, 2016 - 2018.

Selected Invited Lectures:

Lindahl Lectures, Uppsala University, 2002; Joseph Schumpeter Lecture, 2003; Keynes Lecture, British Academy, 2004; Walras-Bowley Lecture, Econometric Society World Congress, 2005; Kuznets Lectures, Yale University, 2006; Richard T. Ely Lectures, Johns Hopkins University, 2008; Yrjo Jahnsson Lectures, 2010; John von Neumann Lecture, Budapest, 2010 ; Fishelson Lecture, Tel Aviv, 2010; Musgrave Lecture, Munich 2011; Edgeworth Lecture, Limerick 2011; Harris Lecture, Harvard 2012; Geary Lecture, ESRI Dublin 2012; Hicks Lecture, Oxford, 2015; Raimar Lust Lecture, Max Planck Institutes, 2016, Richard Stone Lecture, Cambridge, 2016; FBBVA Lecture, Chicago and Madrid, 2017; Amartya Sen Lecture, LSE, 2019; W. Arthur Lewis Lecture, UWI, 2019, Alan Walters Lecture, University of Birmingham, 2020.