John Micklewright

John Micklewright (born 20 June 1957) is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Social Statistics at UCL Social Research Institute, University College London.

Micklewright studied at the University of Exeter (BA in Geography and Economics with First Class Honours) and then completed a PhD in Economics at the London School of Economics.

He did post-doctoral work as a Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.

Before joining UCL, he was Professor of Social Statistics in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Southampton, head of research in the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence, and Lecturer, Reader and then Professor of Economics at Queen Mary, University of London.

In 2015, he walked across France, from Normandy to the Alps, a journey described in a blog at the time ‘The Long March’ and subsequently in a book, The Opening Country: A Walk through France, Matador, 2021.

His research focuses on:

At UNICEF Micklewright compared living standards of children in both OECD members and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former USSR.

He was one of the team that started the Innocenti Report Card series on child wellbeing in the OECD.

He is a Research Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), (Bonn).

Micklewright's publications include the following books, as well as many journal articles:

He is the editor, together with Andrea Brandolini (Banca d'Italia), of Tony Atkinson's last book, published posthumously in 2019, Measuring Poverty around the World, Princeton University Press.