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Tim Besley was born on 14 September, 1960 in Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England, is a British academic economist. Discover Tim Besley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 63 years old?
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63 years old |
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Virgo |
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14 September 1960 |
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14 September |
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Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England |
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United Kingdom
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Tim Besley Height, Weight & Measurements
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Tim Besley Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Tim Besley worth at the age of 63 years old? Tim Besley’s income source is mostly from being a successful academic . He is from United Kingdom. We have estimated Tim Besley's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Sir Timothy John Besley, (born 14 September 1960) is a British academic economist who is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).
He is also 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 (STICERD) at the LSE.
He 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.
Besley married political economist Gillian Paull in 1993; the couple has two sons.
He lives in Barnes, Richmond upon Thames in London.
He is a fan of Fulham Football Club.
Besley's first position was as an assistant professor in the economics department and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, before returning to the UK in 1995 as professor of economics at LSE.
He has served as the director of the Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), and as a member of the Steering Group for the International Growth Centre.
He won the 2005 Yrjö Jahnsson Award and the 2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
Born in Lincolnshire, Sir Tim Besley attended Aylesbury Grammar School and then studied at Oxford University, where he gained a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) with First Class Honours from Keble College, winning the George Webb Medley Prize for best exam performance in his cohort for his second and third years.
In 2005, he won the Yrjö Jahnsson Award for European economics and was awarded the 2010 John von Neumann Award by the Rajk László College for Advanced Studies at Corvinus University of Budapest.
He served on the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from September 2006 to August 2009.
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 (CIFAR).
He is a past research fellow of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and was a member of the Mirrlees Review committee.
He is also a co-chair of the LSE Growth Commission and a member of the National Infrastructure Commission.
On the international level, Besley has served as a consultant to the World Bank and to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.
In June 2021, he was appointed to the World Bank–International Monetary Fund High-Level Advisory Group (HLAG) on Sustainable and Inclusive Recovery and Growth, co-chaired by Mari Pangestu, Ceyla Pazarbasioglu, and Nicholas Stern.
Besley's research is focused on aspects of economic policy formation in developed and emerging market economies.
He is one of the leading economists in restoring the study of political economy to prominence in mainstream economics.
A selected bibliography includes:
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.
He was a co-editor of American Economic Review – the first person to serve in this position not based at a US university.
He is the 2010 president of the European Economic Association.
Besley was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) 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.
For 2022 he was awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
From 2014 to 2017, he served as president of the International Economic Association.
In 2018, he served as president of the Econometric Society, and from 2006 to 2009 he was an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee.
In 2018, he began serving as president of the Econometric Society.
