Richard Blundell

Who is Richard Blundell?

Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA is a British economist and econometrician.

Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and Research Director at Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is also Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS. He is also a Fellow of the Econometric Society, Fellow of the British Academy, Honorary Member of the American Economic Association, Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.

In 1995, Blundell received the Yrjö Jahnsson Award, given by the European Economic Association every two years to the best young economist in Europe, for his work in microeconometrics and the analysis of labour supply, welfare reform and consumer behaviour. In 2000 he was awarded the Econometric Society's Frisch Medal, awarded every two years for empirical or theoretical applied research published in Econometrica during the previous five years. In 2008 he was recipient of the Jean-Jacques Laffont Prize 2008 given by the Toulouse School of Economics to an international high level economist whose research combines both the theoretical and applied aspects of economics. He was the 2010 Distinguished Center for Economic Studies Fellow, an annual prize given by the CES of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich to an outstanding economist who has greatly contributed to the understanding of economic policy problems. In 2012 he was recipient of the IZA Prize in Labor Economics awarded by IZA for outstanding academic achievements in the field of labor economics.