Tim Besley

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Sir Tim Besley CBE FBA
Tim Besley in 2022
Born	(1960-09-14) 14 September 1960 (age 64) Kesteven, Lincolnshire, England
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Oxford
Doctoral advisor	W.M. Gorman
Influences	Amartya Sen James Mirrlees James M. Buchanan
Academic work
Discipline	Political economics
Institutions	London School of Economics Princeton University All Souls College, Oxford
Doctoral students	Rohini Pande Dave Donaldson Imran Rasul
Notable ideas	Citizen-candidate model, Political Agency Models, Economics of State Capacity
Awards	Yrjö Jahnsson Award (2005) John von Neumann Award (2010) BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2022)
Website	Information at IDEAS / RePEc

Sir Timothy John Besley, CBE, FBA (born 14 September 1960) is a British academic economist who is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).

He is also a commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission, a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the LSE. In 2018, he served as president of the Econometric Society, and from 2006 to 2009 he was an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee. He won the 2005 Yrjö Jahnsson Award and the 2022 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.