Timothy Besley
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Sir Tim Besley CBE, FBA |
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| Born |
14 September 1961 Lincolnshire, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Institution | London School of Economics, All Souls College, Oxford |
| Field | Political economics |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
| Influences |
James Mirrlees James M. Buchanan |
| Contributions | Citizen-candidate model, Political Agency Models, Economics of State Capacity |
| Awards | Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2005) John von Neumann Award (2010) |
| Information at IDEAS / RePEc | |
Sir Timothy John Besley, CBE, FBA, is an academic economist who is School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics. He is also a two year Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Since 2015 has been a commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission.
Born in Lincolnshire, Besley attended Aylesbury Grammar School, and then studied at Oxford University, where he gained a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (1st Class) from Keble College, Oxford and an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. in Economics having been elected an Examination Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford in 1984. At Oxford, he was one of the most successful students, evidenced by winning three George Webb Medley Prizes for his BA and M.Phil exam performance.
His first position was as an assistant professor in the economics department and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University before returning to the UK in 1995 as Professor of Economics at LSE. He has served as the Director of the Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), and a member of the Steering Group for the International Growth Centre. He served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from September 2006 to August 2009.
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