Government, Markets and Public Policy in the 21st century

Nicholas Barr

Professor Nicholas Barr FRSA has an MSc in Economics from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Fulbright Scholar. He is Professor in Public Economics at the London School of Economics, the author of numerous articles, and author or editor of over twenty books, including The Economics of the Welfare State (6th edition, 2012), Pension Reform: A Short Guide (with Peter Diamond) (2010, also in Chinese and Spanish), and Financing Higher Education: Answers from the UK (with Iain Crawford), (2005). The heart of his work is an exploration of how market failures can both explain and justify the existence of welfare states.

Luis Garicano

Professor Luis Garicano returned in the Summer of 2023 to the London School of Economics as a Full Professor at the School of Public Policy. He started his academic career at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he attained the rank of full professor in Economics and Strategy after 10 years on the faculty and then at the London School of Economics, where he has been Full Professor in Economics and Strategy at the departments of Economics and Management of the school and head of the Managerial Economics and Strategy Group. He has been visiting professor at other institutions including MIT, Columbia Business School and the London Business School. He has held positions as an economist of the European Commission and McKinsey & Company, where he has also held a named chair with the FEDEA foundation.

For a few years, Garicano stepped out of academia and became a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to August 2022. While in Parliament he was a vice president of the Renew Europe Group in Parliament in charge of economic affairs and a vice president of the European political party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE Party).

Julius Sen

Julius Sen is a member of the Systemic Risk Centre (SRC) of the Financial Markets Group (FMG) of the London School of Economics. This centre looks at risks to the global financial system that originate outside the financial system, including climate events, political and strategic developments, pandemics, etc. He also works with LSE IDEAS which is a foreign policy think tank within the LSE, and with the International Trade Policy Unit (ITPU) within the department of International Relations of the LSE.

He is an expert in trade policy, regulation, investment and development, and spent the period between 2001 and 2020 designing and delivering executive programmes for governments, industry, financial institutions, and regulatory agencies from within the UK and around the world relating to the full range of issues within the area of Economic Statecraft.