John Van Reenen (economist)
| John Van Reenen | |
|---|---|
| Born | 26 December 1965 |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Institution | LSE |
| Field |
International economics Industrial economics |
| Alma mater |
University College London (Ph.D., 1993) LSE (M.Sc., 1989) Queens College, Cambridge (B.A., 1988) |
| Doctoral students |
Nicholas Bloom |
| Awards | Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2009) Arrow Prize (2010) EIB Prize (2014) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
John Michael Van Reenen OBE (born 26 December 1965) is a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He has been awarded with an Order of the British Empire and the Yrjö Jahnsson Award.
He is the son of Lionel Van Reenen, formerly a sociologist at Goldsmith's College in the University of London and an immigrant from South Africa. His mother is Anne Van Reenen, a retired banker. He is married to Sarah Chambers, an Interior Designer in London's Carden Cunietti.
Van Reenen attended Cambridge University where he gained a First and won the Joshua King Prize, Subject and College Prizes. He took a Master's at London School of Economics with Distinction winning the Automation Prize. He completed his PhD at University College London and began his career in 1992 in the Institute for Fiscal Studies where he founded the Productivity and Innovation programme. He has been a full professor in University College London and a visiting professor in University of California, Berkeley, Stanford Business School, Harvard University and Princeton University. From October 2003 to July 2016, he was Professor in the Department of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. In July 2016, he became a Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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