Richard Layard, Baron Layard

The Right Honourable The Lord Layard FBA FAcSS
Lord Layard in 2006
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 3 May 2000 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	Peter Richard Grenville Layard (1934-03-15) 15 March 1934 (age 90)
Nationality	British
Political party	Labour
Spouse	Molly, Baroness Meacher
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	King's College, Cambridge London School of Economics

Peter Richard Grenville Layard, Baron Layard FBA (born 15 March 1934) is a British labour economist, co-director of the Community Wellbeing programme at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics, and co-editor of the World Happiness Report.^[1] Layard is an economist who wants public policy to be targeted at the wellbeing of the people. To this end he has written 6 books and some 40 articles.

His work on mental health, including publishing The Depression Report in 2006, led to the establishment of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme in England.