Lord 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 (LSE). He is president of the British Academy (since July 2013), and was elected fellow of the Royal Society (June 2014).
Stern has held academic appointments in the U.K. 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 to 2005; director of policy and research for the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa from 2004 to 2005; head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published in 2006; and head of the Government Economic Service from 2003 to 2007.
He was knighted for services to economics in 2004 and made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford in 2007. 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.”
Stern is Co-Chair of the Global Commission on New Climate Economy.