Richard Blundell

Sir
Richard Blundell
CBE FBA
Born (1952-05-01) 1 May 1952 (age 72)
Shoreham-by-Sea, England, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Academic career
FieldEconometrics
Microeconomics
Labour economics
InstitutionUniversity College London
University of British Columbia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of California, Berkeley
Northwestern University
Alma materLondon School of Economics
Doctoral
students		Costas Meghir
John Van Reenen
Nicholas Bloom[1]
AwardsKnighthood (2014)
BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2014)
Nemmers Prize (2016)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA (born 1 May 1952 in Shoreham-by-Sea) is a British economist and econometrician.

Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at the Department of Economics of University College London and the Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.[2] He is also Associate Faculty Member, TSE, Toulouse. He was the Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies between 1986 and 2016. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (1991), Fellow of the British Academy (1996), Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (2001), Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002), Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (2003), Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists (2005), and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (2019).

Blundell has received honorary doctorates from the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland in 2003; the University of Mannheim in 2011; the Norwegian School of Economics NHH, Bergen in 2011; the Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland in 2016; the University of Bristol in 2017; the University of Venice Ca Foscari in 2018; and the Athens School of Economics, AUEB, Athens in 2022.[3] He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to economics and social science.[4]

  1. ^ Bloom's CV Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  2. ^ "Orazio Attanasio and Rachel Griffith appointed as IFS Research Directors -".
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference BlunCV was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 1.