Nicholas Stern
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The Right Honourable The Lord Stern of Brentford FRS FBA |
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Lord Stern in 2014
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| World Bank Chief Economist | |
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In office 2000–2003 |
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| Preceded by | Joseph Stiglitz |
| Succeeded by | François Bourguignon |
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22 April 1946 Hammersmith |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Political party | Labour |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | Location and the rate of development. A study in the theory of optimum planning (1971) |
| Doctoral advisor | James Mirrlees |
| Known for | Stern review (2006) |
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Website www |
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Nicholas Herbert Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford, FRS, FBA (born 22 April 1946) is a British economist and academic. He is I. G. Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE), and 2010 Professor of Collège de France. Since 2013, he has been President of the British Academy.
After attending Latymer Upper School, Stern studied the Mathematical Tripos and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics at Peterhouse, Cambridge, and his DPhilEcon in economics at Nuffield College, Oxford with thesis on the rate of economic development and the theory of optimum planning in 1971 supervised by James Mirrlees.
He was the Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 2000 to 2003, and was recently a civil servant and government economic advisor in the United Kingdom. In June 2007, Stern became the first holder of the I. G. Patel Chair at the London School of Economics. In 2008, he was also appointed Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, a major new research centre also at LSE. He is Chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy at Leeds University and LSE. Stern is co-chair of the Global Commission for the Economy and Climate, with Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Paul Polman.
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