Chair
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He has held posts at other UK and overseas universities, and as Chief Economist at both the EBRD and the World Bank.

He was Head, UK Government Economic Service 2003-2007, and produced the Stern Review on the economics of climate change. He was President of the Royal Economic Society (2018-2019).  He was President of the British Academy (July 2013-2017) and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014). He was knighted for services to economics (2004), made a life peer (2007), and appointed Companion of Honour for services to economics, international relations and tackling climate change in 2017.  

He has published more than 15 books and 100 articles.