Nicholas Stern

IG Patel Professor, London School of Economics

 

 

Lord Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at London School of Economics and Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. He is President of the British Academy (from July 2013), and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014). 

 

He has held previous posts at universities in the UK and abroad including Oxford, MIT, Warwick, Indian Statistical Institute, People’s University of China and the College de France. He was Chief Economist at the World Bank, 2000-2003, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999. 

 

Lord Stern was Head of the UK Government Economic Service 2003-7, and produced the landmark Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford in 2007.  His most recent book is Why are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change.