David Soskice

David William Soskice, FBA (born 6 July 1942) is a British political economist and academic. Currently, he is LSE School Professor of Political Science and Economics at the London School of Economics.

Soskice was born as son of the British Home Secretary Frank Soskice in London. He shares his first name with his grandfather, the Russian revolutionary journalist David Soskice, who had fled to England.

Soskice was educated at Winchester College and studied Political science, Philosophy and Economics at Nuffield and at Trinity College, Oxford.

Between 1967 and 1990, he worked as Lecturer in Economics at University College, Oxford. After the Fall of the Berlin Wall he went to the Berlin Social Science Research Center, where he worked as Research professor and director of the working group 'Employment and Economic change'. After his retirement in 2007, he returned to Nuffield as Research Professor of Comparative Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow.

Soskice was Visiting Professor at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell and, every spring semester at Duke University. Between 2004 and 2007, he was appointed Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. He counselled the OECD, the British Labour Party and the governments of United Kingdom, France, and Germany in questions of employment and education.

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