Richard Disney Research Fellow E-mail Richard

Richard Disney is a Research Fellow at IFS. He joined the University of Nottingham as a Professor in the School of Economics in September 1998 having previously been Professor of Economics at Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London (1995-98) and Professor of Economics at the University of Kent at Canterbury (1988-95). He previously worked at the University of Reading, the University of Strathclyde, and the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He has held visiting positions at both the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, and has been a consultant for the World Bank, the ILO, the OECD and a number of UK government departments.

His research interests lie largely in the field of applied microeconomics, including tax policy, social welfare reform and pensions policy, all in both developed and the developing countries, and the economics of labour markets, including retirement behaviour and wage structure. He has published numerous articles in journals such as the Economic Journal, European Economic Review and Economica. His book Can we afford to grow older? A perspective on the economics of aging (1996) was published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He teaches macroeconomics at first year, graduate level growth theory, and contributes to taught modules on labour economics and the economics of public policy. He is a Director of the School's Experian Centre for Economic Modelling (ExCEM) and the Centre for Policy Evaluation (CPE), a member of the Council of the Royal Economic Society, of the Scientific Board of the Centre for Research on Pensions and Welfare Policies in Turin (CeRP), Governor of the Pensions Policy Institute and a member of the Nurses and Other Health Professionals Review Body (NOHPRB). He was conference chair for the 2005 Royal Economic Society held at the University of Nottingham.

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