Stephen Nickell

Sir Stephen John Nickell CBE (b. 25 April 1944) is a British economist and former Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford, noted for his work in labour economics with Richard Layard and Richard Jackman. Nickell and Layard hypothesised the tendency for reduced unemployment to lead to inflation resulted from its effect on competitive bargaining in the labour market He is currently a member of the Office for Budget Responsibility's Budget Responsibility Committee.

Nickell was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood and Pembroke College, Cambridge. From 1965 until 1968 he was a mathematics teacher at Hendon County School. He was a postgraduate student at the London School of Economics, where he took the degree of Master of Science and was awarded the Ely Devons Prize. He worked at the London School of Economics from 1970 until 1984, and again from 1998 until 2006, initially as Lecturer (1970–77), Reader (1977–79), and Professor of Economics (1979–84). From 1984 until 1998 he was Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, Professor of Economics in the University of Oxford, and Director of the University of Oxford Institute of Economics and Statistics.