Stephen Smith Research Fellow E-mail Stephen

Stephen is a Research Fellow at IFS and Professor of Economics at University College London. After graduating, Stephen Smith worked for eight years in the Department of Trade and Industry as a member of the Government Economic Service. In 1985 he joined the staff of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, an independent research institute specialising in the economic analysis of taxation and public finance. He established a research group at IFS covering issues of European fiscal policy, environmental taxation, and local government finance, and in 1990 was appointed Deputy Director of IFS. He joined the Department of Economics at UCL part-time in 1990, and left IFS to a full-time post at UCL in 1997. He was Head of Department at UCL from 1997 to 2002. From October 2004 he is Acting Director of the School of Public Policy at UCL. His main research and teaching interests lie in the fields of public finance (especially European VAT policy) and environmental economics. He is a member of the DEFRA Academic Panel on Environmental Economics, and has acted as a consultant to a number of government departments and international organisations including the OECD, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund.

View affiliated web pages