1. Tim Besley is a commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission, a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines at the LSE.
14 Facts About Tim Besley
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Tim Besley won the 2005 Yrjo Jahnsson Award and the 2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
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Tim Besley continued his graduate studies at Oxford, receiving an MPhil in economics with Distinction and the George Webb Medley Prize for the best MPhil performance in his cohort, followed by a DPhil in Economics upon election as an Examination Fellow of All Souls College in 1984.
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Tim Besley has served as the director of the Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, and as a member of the Steering Group for the International Growth Centre.
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Tim Besley served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from September 2006 to August 2009.
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Tim Besley is a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a former member of the Institutions, Organizations and Growth Programme of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
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Tim Besley is a past research fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and was a member of the Mirrlees Review committee.
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Tim Besley is a co-chair of the LSE Growth Commission and a member of the National Infrastructure Commission.
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Tim Besley's research is focused on aspects of economic policy formation in developed and emerging market economies.
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Tim Besley is one of the leading economists in restoring the study of political economy to prominence in mainstream economics.
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Sir Tim Besley is a Fellow of the British Academy, a fellow of the Econometric Society, and a foreign honorary member of the American Economic Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Tim Besley is the 2010 president of the European Economic Association.
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Tim Besley was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire 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.
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Tim Besley married political economist Gillian Paull in 1993; the couple has two sons.