Biography
John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics and Digital Fellow, Initiative for the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT). Since July 2024 he has served as a senior economic advisor to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves. He is the Director of the Programme on Innovation and Diffusion (POID). He was the 2009 winner of the Yrjo Jahnsson Award (the European equivalent of the Clark Medal); the Arrow Prize (2011); the European Investment Bank Prize (2014), and the HBR-McKinsey Award (2018). He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, the NBER, CEPR and the Society of Labor Economists. In 2017, he was awarded an OBE for ?services to public policy and economics? by the Queen.
Current areas of research include:
- POID is rooted in the argument that productivity growth rests ultimately upon two elements: innovation - ideas that are new to the world - and the diffusion of these ideas across the economy. Read More...
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