Robin Burgess


Robin Burgess, is a Professor of Economics, the Director of the Economic Organisation and Public Policy Programme, Co-founder and Director of the International Growth Centre, and Co-Director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
His areas of research interest include development economics, public economics, political economy, labour economics and environmental economics. He has published on a variety of topics including natural disasters, mass media, rural banks, land reform, labour regulation, industrial policy, taxation, poverty and growth.

Education

He has been a Visiting Assistant and Associate Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, the National Bureau of Economic Research, Ecole Polytechnique, University College London and the University of California at Berkeley. He is a Director of the International Growth Centre, Program Director of the Development Economics Program at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, a Member of the Board of the Bureau for Research in the Economic Analysis of Development, a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau for Economic Research, a member of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, a Fellow of the European Development Research Development Network, a member of the Institute for Policy Dialogue, an Associate Editor of the Economic Journal and is the Founder and Director of the Microeconomics of Growth Research Network. Before joining academia he worked for the World Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the Government of India. Robin Burgess was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2016.

Research areas

His research areas include