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Biography
RICHARD DAVIES is an economist and author. He is a Professor in Practice at the LSE’s School of Public Policy and holds the UK’s first Chair in the Public Understanding of Economics at Bristol University. He is the director of the UK’s Economics Observatory and the Harvard-LSE Growth Co-Lab.
Richard’s book, Extreme Economies, won the Lonely Planet/Stanford’s prize for debut travel writing in 2020, and has been published in the UK, US, Japan, China, Korea and Taiwan. He wrote and edited The Economist’s guide to economics, which is available in Chinese and Arabic translation. His articles have featured in The New York Times, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Times, Wired and 1843 Magazine.
In previous roles Richard has been Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers at HM Treasury, an economist and speechwriter at the Bank of England, and economics editor of The Economist.
Richard is has held leadership roles in several projects that aim to improve and broaden public understanding and access to economics. At the University of Chicago he was Executive Director of the department’s new Economics for Everyone initiative. He is director of the Festival of Economics, held in Bristol each year. He was a founding director and trustee of CORE, a charity which provides open-access resources for economics teachers and students in universities across the world.
Richard’s research uses large scale micro data to answer questions about aggregate puzzles, including inflation, productivity, and wages. He studied economics at Oxford (PPE), the London School of Economics (MSc) and New York University (PhD). He has taught economics at Oxford, Bristol the LSE and Chicago.
Contact
For academic, policy or educational events please get in touch directly, via the LSE or Bristol.
For speaking engagements, please contact Karen O’Donnell at Chartwell Speakers: karen@chartwellspeakers.com.
My literary agent is Caroline Michel at PFD.
