Press Release

The National Institute of Economic and Social Research announces the appointment of two Research Directors

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The National Institute of Economic and Social Research announces the appointment of two Research Directors:

Professor Roger Farmer (UCLA, visiting Warwick) has been appointed Research Director (macroeconomics). He is an internationally prominent macroeconomist and works on the sources of business cycle fluctuations. In 2013, he was the Senior Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England. He has previously held positions at the University of Pennsylvania, The European University Institute and the University of Toronto. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, Fellow Commoner of Cambridge University, and Co- Editor of the International Journal of Economic Theory. He runs a blog at http://www.rogerfarmer.com/rogerfarmerblog

Professor Peter Dolton (Sussex) is appointed as Acting Research Director (microeconomics). He one of the UK’s leading applied microeconomists and has worked extensively on education, health and labour economics. He is a member of the Doctors and Dentists Review Body, the School Teacher Pay Review Body and the Armed Forces Review body. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, a Research Fellow CESifo and a Research Fellow IZA. Peter has a long and honourable history of association with the Institute, most recently on the work on Pensions published in the August 2016 Review.

Professor Jagjit Chadha, Director of NIESR, welcomed the appointments and said: “With the appointment of two such distinguished Directors of Research, at a time of heightened economic uncertainty, the Institute can strive to make an even more substantive contribution to economic and social policy-making in the UK.”

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