Professor Sir Timothy Besley
CBE, MA, MPhil, DPhil, FBA
Quondam Fellow since 2018
- Two-Year Fellow, All Souls College (from 2016 to 2018)
- London School Economics: Professor of Economics (1995-7), Professor of Economics and Political Science (1997-2007), Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science (2007-11), School Professor of Economics and Political Science (since 2012), W Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics (since 2015).
- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 1995 to 2000)
- Assistant Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University (from 1989 to 1995)
- Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 1984 to 1991)
- Postgraduate, Nuffield College (from 1983 to 1984)
- Undergraduate, Keble College (from 1980 to 1983)
- Political Economy of Growth and Development
- Dynamics of institutions
- Taxation, public spending and the political economy of policy-making
- Fellow, Econometric Society (2000, to serve as President in 2018)
- President of the European Economic Association (2010)
- President of the International Economic Association (from 2014 to 2017)
- Gluskin-Granovsky Fellow, Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2012)
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Economic Association (2007)
- Co-editor, American Economic Review (from 1998 to 2003)
- Associate Editor, Quarterly Journal of Economics (from 2006)
- External Member, Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (from 2006 to 2009)
- Commissioner, National Infrastructure Commission (from 2015)
- Co-Chair, LSE Growth Commission (from 2012)
- Honorary Fellow, Keble College
- Chair of the Council of Management, National Institute of Economic and Social Research (from 2009 to 2016)
- Yrjo Johnsson Award of the European Economic Association (2005).
- John von Neumann Award (2010).