Tim Besley
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Biography
Tim Besley is School Professor of Economics and Political Science and W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the LSE. He was a co-chair of the LSE growth commission and a member of the IFS’s Mirrlees Review panel, and is currently Chair of the Council of Management of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.