Richard Blundell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Richard Blundell

British economist

Date of Birth: 01-May-1952

Place of Birth: Shoreham-by-Sea, England, United Kingdom

Profession: economist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Sir Richard William Blundell CBE FBA (born 1 May 1952, Shoreham-by-Sea) is a British economist and econometrician. Blundell is the David Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at University College London and the Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
He was the Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies between 1986-2016.
He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society (1991), Fellow of the British Academy (1996), Honorary Member of the American Economic Association (2001), Honorary Member American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2002) and Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (2003). Blundell has received honorary doctorates from the University of St.
Gallen, Switzerland in 2003; the University of Mannheim in 2011; the Norwegian School of Economics NHH, Bergen in 2011; the Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland in 2016; the University of Bristol in 2017 and the University of Venice Ca Foscari in 2018.
He was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to economics and social science.Blundell was predicted to win the Nobel Prize in 2015 by Reuters along with two other notable economists, Chicago economist John A.
List for his work on field experiments and Northwestern economist Charles Manski, for his work on the reflection problem.