Richard Blundell is theRicardo Professor of Political EconomyatUniversity College London, and Director of theESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policyat IFS. He was Research Director of the IFS from 1986-2016.

He is a graduate of the University of Bristol and London School of Economics. He was appointed Lecturer in Econometrics at University of Manchester in 1975 and Professor of Economics at University College London in 1984. He holds Honorary Doctorates from the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, the Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen; the University of Mannheim, Germany; and the University of Bristol. He has held visiting professor positions at UBC, MIT and Berkeley. He was Knighted in the 2014 New Years Honours list.

Recipient (with David Card) of the 2015 BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance, and Management. Recipient of the 2016 Nemmers Prize in Economics.

In 1995 he was awarded theYrjö Jahnsson Prizefor his work in microeconometrics, labour supply and consumer behaviour, and theEconometric Society Frisch Medalin 2000, for his paperEstimating Labour Supply Responses using Tax Reforms, published inEconometrica, July 1998. In 2012 he was awarded the工业区A Prize in Labor Economics.

He was President of theEuropean Economics Associationin 2004 and President of theEconometric Societyin 2006. He was President of theSociety of Labor Economists (SOLE)in 2010. He was President of theRoyal Economics Society 2011-2013.

He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (1991), Fellow of the British Academy (1996), Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (2001), Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Science (2002), Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (2003) and Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists (2005).

He was co-editor ofEconometricafrom 1997-2001 and co-editor of theJournal of Econometricsfrom 1992 to 1997. He is a founding editor of Microeconomic Insights. His published papers have appeared inEconometrica,Review of Economic Studies,American Economic Review,Quarterly Journal of Economics,Journal of Econometrics,Journal of Applied Econometrics,Economic JournalandJournal of Political Economy.

Richard Blundell joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.