Anthony Venables

Anthony Venables
CBE
Venables in 2010
Born
Anthony James Venables

(1953-04-25) 25 April 1953 (age 71)
NationalityBritish
Academic career
InstitutionUniversity of Oxford, International Growth Centre
FieldInternational Economics, Spatial Economics
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
University of Oxford

Anthony James Venables, CBE, (born 25 April 1953),[1] is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.

Venables is known as one of the pioneers of New economic geography. He co-authored along with Paul Krugman and Masahisa Fujita the influential book The Spatial Economy - Cities, Regions and International Trade (2001).[2]

He is the current director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre). He also serves on the Steering Group of the International Growth Centre. From 2005 to 2008, he held the position of Chief Economist at the UK Department for International Development.

  1. ^ "Venables, Anthony". Library of Congress. Retrieved 27 September 2014. (Anthony Venables, Anthony James Venables, Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Southampton, b. 04-25-53)
  2. ^ Venables, Anthony; Fujita, Masahisa (2001). The spatial economy: cities, regions and international trade. Cambridge, Mmssachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262561471.

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