
Nicholas Stern
A world-renowned economist and academic, Lord Nicholas Stern was Chief Economist at the World Bank between the years 2000 and 2003 and has acted as advisor to the UK government.
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Nicholas Stern’s background
Professor Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. President of the British Academy, July 2013 – 2017, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.
Professor Stern has held academic appointments in the UK at Oxford, Warwick and the LSE and abroad including at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ecole Polytechnique and the Collège de France in Paris, the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore and Delhi, and the People’s University of China in Beijing.
He was Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999, and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank, 2000-2003.
He was Second Permanent Secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury from 2003-2005; Director of Policy and Research for the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa from 2004-2005; Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published in 2006; and Head of the Government Economic Service from 2003-2007.
He was knighted for services to economicsin 2004, made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford in 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 and his most recent book is “Why are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change”.
Awards and Prizes
- He holds 13 honorary degrees and has received the Blue Planet Prize (2009),
- the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010), the Leontief Prize (2010),
- the Schumpeter Award (2015), amongst many others.
Research interests
- The economics of climate change;
- Economic development and growth;
- Economic theory;
- Tax reform;
- Public policy;
- The role of the state and economies in transition.
Nicholas Stern's 2025 talks & topics
The Role of the State and Economies in Transition
The Economics of Climate Change
Climate Change - effects, risks, opportunities
Economic Development and Growth
India? A new World Power?