John Van Reenen (economist)

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John Van Reenen
Born (1965-12-26) 26 December 1965 (age 58)
NationalityBritish
Academic career
Institution
Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2009) Arrow Prize (2010) EIB Prize (2014)
Information at IDEAS / RePEc

John Michael Van Reenen

Officer of the Order of the British Empire
(OBE) and received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award.

Background

He is the son of Lionel Van Reenen, formerly a sociologist at

Goldsmiths College in the University of London
and an immigrant from South Africa. His mother is Anne Van Reenen, a retired banker. He is married to Sarah Chambers, an interior designer with the London practice Carden Cunietti.

Van Reenen attended

Stanford Business School, Harvard University and Princeton University. From October 2003 to July 2016, he was a professor in the Department of Economics and director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics.[2][3] In July 2016, he became a professor of economics at MIT.[3]

In 2000–01 he was a senior advisor to the Secretary of State for Health,

sustainable growth
in the UK economy.

His research focuses on the causes and consequences of innovation. His early work focused on the impact of technology on wages, inequality, jobs, and firm profits. A characteristic of his approach is a focus on empirical evidence of large-scale datasets and an emphasis on public policy. More recently, he has worked on the measurement of management practices and their impact on productivity across firms and countries with his former PhD students

Institute for the Study of Labor
.

Van Reenen was appointed

Yrjö Jahnsson Award.[7] This is the European equivalent of the John Bates Clark Medal. It is awarded by the European Economic Association to the best economist in Europe under the age of 45. In 2011 he was awarded the Arrow Prize for the best paper in the field of health economics
.

John Van Reenen was both the Professor of Applied Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management and in the Department of Economics.[4]

References

  1. ^ Bloom's CV Retrieved 2016-10-02.
  2. ^ "John Van Reenen". Royal Economic Society. Archived from the original on 26 March 2016.
  3. ^ a b "John Van Reenen - Faculty | MIT Sloan School of Management". mitsloan.mit.edu. Retrieved 4 August 2016.
  4. ^ a b "John van Reenen".
  5. ^ "No. 61803". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2016. p. N14.
  6. ^ Glaze, Ben (31 December 2016). "Revealed, the New Year's Honours 2017 in full". mirror. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
  7. ^ "Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics". Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016.

External links

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