• Community
  Director: Prof. Alan Manning
  
  
• Education and Skills
  Director: Prof. Sandra McNally
  
  
• Growth
  Director: Prof. John Van Reenen
  
  
• Labour Markets
  Director: Prof. Steve Machin
  
  
• Trade
  Director: Prof. Gianmarco Ottaviano
  
  
• Urban Programme
  Director: Prof. Steve Gibbons
  
  
• Wellbeing
  Director: Prof. Lord Richard Layard
  
  

Completed self-standing programmes:

• Biomarkers and Economic Behaviour Research Group
  Directors: Prof. Richard B. Freeman (Harvard) and Prof. Alex Bryson (NIESR)
  
  
• Centre for the Economics of Education (CEE) 2000 - 2010
  Funded by the Department for Education and Skills.
  Director: Prof. Stephen Machin
  
  
• CEP Macro programme
  CEP Macro programme Director: Prof. Francesco Caselli
  The Macro programme has now transferred to the Centre for Macroeconomics
  
  
• Effective Intervention
  Director: Dr. Peter Boone
  
  
• EU LEED: Linked Employer-Employee Data
  Four in-depth studies assessing the potential of linked employer-employee and panel data sets for analysis of European labour market policy
  
  
• Explaining Productivity and Growth in Europe, America and Asia
  Director: Dr. Tobias Kretschmer
  
  
• Future of Unions Programme
  Funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
  
  
• HP (formerly EDS) Innovation Research Programme
  
  
• LSE Growth Commission
  Funded by HEIF and ESRC.
  Chaired by Prof. Tim Besley and Prof. John Van Reenen
  
  
• Manpower Human Resources Lab
  See MHRL Publications & MHRL Past Events
  
  
• Mental Health Policy Group 2011 - 2012
  Director: Prof. Lord Richard Layard
  
  
• Pay Inequalities and Economic Performance (PIEP)
  With support from the European Commission and Eurostat.
  
  
• Skills for All Programme
  Focusing on post-16 education and training and the new modern Apprenticeship, funded by the Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation.