Lord Nicholas Stern of Brentford, Kt, FBA

Lord Stern is a senior economist and a world leader in the field of economic development and growth. He is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics (LSE), where he is also head of the India Observatory within the LSE's Asia Research Centre, and Chairman of the new Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (announced in April 2008). 

Previously, having held academic posts at the Universities of Oxford and Warwick and the London School of Economics, he then worked as Chief Economist for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and subsequently as Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank.

Lord Stern is a Fellow of British Academy and of the Econometric Society, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He will be President of the European Economic Association in 2009. He was Director of Policy and Research for the UK government’s Africa Commission, and in 2005, he was appointed by the UK government to conduct the influential Stern Review, which analysed the economic costs of climate change and policy on the management of climate change.

He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford in 2007.