Paul Cheshire, Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography, was awarded a CBE for Services to Economics and Housing.

In 2004 Professor Cheshire won the Royal Economic Society's Prize for the best paper in the Economic Journal and won the European Regional Science Association/European investment Banks prize for lifetime contribution to regional science research in 2009. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences and of the Weimer School.

Aside from his academic work he has spent time as an advisor and as a consultant for the European Commission, the World Bank, the OECD, the UN and other international organisations as well as the UK government, including being a member of the Expert Panel for the Barker Review of the Planning system.

Also receiving an honour was long-serving former member of LSE staff, Professor John Van Reenen, awarded an OBE for services to economics and pubic policy making. Until summer 2016 Professor Van Renen was Director of LSE’s Centre for Economic Performance (CEP). He is currently Professor of Applied Economics at MIT and remains an associate at CEP.

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