Tim Besley

Sir Tim Besley
CBE, FBA
Born (1960-09-14) 14 September 1960
Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England
Nationality British
Institution London School of Economics, All Souls College, Oxford
Field Political economics
Alma mater University of Oxford
Doctoral
students		 Dave Donaldson
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.

Early life and education

Born in Lincolnshire,[1] 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.

Career

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.

He is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research and a member of the Institutions, Organizations and Growth Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.

He was a research fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and was a member of the Mirrlees Review committee.

Research

Besley's research interests are focused on aspects of economic policy formation in developed and emerging market economies. He is one of the leading economists involved in restoring the study of political economy to prominence in mainstream economics.

Honours and awards

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a fellow of the Econometric Society and is a foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a past co-editor of American Economic Review — the first person to serve in this position not based at a US university. He is the 2010 president of the European Economic Association. From 2014 to 2017, he served as president of the International Economic Association. In 2018, he will serve as President of the Econometric Society. In 2005, he won the Yrjö Jahnsson Award for European economics and he was awarded the 2010 John von Neumann Award by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies at Corvinus University of Budapest.[2] Besley was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours for services to Social Science and a Knight Bachelor in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to Economics and Public Policy.[3][4]

Personal life

Besley has been married to Dr Gillian Paull since 1993 and has two sons; Thomas and Oliver. He lives in the Barnes area of London.

Works

  • Principled agents?: the political economy of good government, Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-19-927150-4
  • Delivering on the promise of pro-poor growth: insights and lessons from country experiences, Editors Timothy Besley, Louise Cord, World Bank Publications, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8213-6515-1

References

  1. ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 30 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Sanchari (17 February 2010). "EOPP Blog: Tim Besley receives the John von Neumann Award 2010".
  3. ↑ "No. 59446". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2010. p. 7.
  4. ↑ "No. 62150". The London Gazette (Supplement). 30 December 2017. p. N2.
Academic offices
Preceded by
Drew Fudenberg		 President of the Econometric Society
2018–		 Incumbent
Governor: Mervyn King (June 2003–present)
September 2006: King | Bean | Barker | Tucker | Lomax | Gieve | Blanchflower | Besley
October 2006 – June 2008: King | Bean | Barker | Tucker | Lomax | Gieve | Blanchflower | Besley | Sentance
July 2008 – February 2009: King | Bean | Barker | Tucker | Gieve | Blanchflower | Besley | Sentance | Dale
March 2009 – April 2009: King | Bean | Barker | Tucker | Blanchflower | Besley | Sentance | Dale | Fisher
June 2009 – August 2009: King | Bean | Barker | Tucker | Besley | Sentance | Dale | Fisher | Miles
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