ProfessorJonathan Haskel
Chair in Economics
Department of Economics and Public Policy - Business School
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- Chair in EconomicsDepartment of Economics and Public Policy - Business School
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- Imperial College London, Economics, Imperial College Business School, Room 419B, London, South Kensington Campus, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
BIO
Jonathan Haskel is Professor of Economics at Imperial College Business School, Imperial College London, where he has been since 2008. He has previously taught at Queen Mary, University of London; Dartmouth College, USA and New York University, USA. His research interests are productivity and growth.
He has published in academic journals and written, with Stian Westlake, two non-technical books, Capitalism Without Capital: the Rise of the Intangible Economy (Princeton, 2017) and Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy (Princeton 2022).
In addition to his academic activities, he has been an External Member of the Reporting Panel of the Competition and Markets Authority (2001-2009); a non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority (2016-2022) and an External Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (2018-2024). He is currently Chair of the National Statistician’s Advisory Panel on Consumer Price Statistics.
He was awarded a CBE for services to Economics in 2018.
He has published in academic journals and written, with Stian Westlake, two non-technical books, Capitalism Without Capital: the Rise of the Intangible Economy (Princeton, 2017) and Restarting the Future: How to Fix the Intangible Economy (Princeton 2022).
In addition to his academic activities, he has been an External Member of the Reporting Panel of the Competition and Markets Authority (2001-2009); a non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority (2016-2022) and an External Member of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee (2018-2024). He is currently Chair of the National Statistician’s Advisory Panel on Consumer Price Statistics.
He was awarded a CBE for services to Economics in 2018.
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- External Member of the Monetary Policy CommitteeBank of England1 Sep 2019 - present
- Non-Executive DirectorUK Statistics Authority1 Feb 2016 - 31 Jan 2023
- Member, Competition Decisions CommitteeFinancial Conduct Authority1 Sep 2015 - 1 Sep 2018
- Member, Competition Decisions CommitteePayment System Regulator Enforcement1 Sep 2015 - 1 Sep 2018
- Member, Reporting Panel (Mobile Phones, Home Credit and Airports, and the EMAP/ABI merger)Competition Commission (now the Competition and Markets Authority)1 Jan 2001 - 1 Jan 2010
- Member, Editorial Board(s)Economica, Journal of Industrial Economics and Economic Policy1 May 2024 - present
- Elected memberConference on Research in Income and Wealth (CRIW)1 May 2024 - present
- Research AssociateCentre for Economic Policy Research, the Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, and the IZA, Bonn1 May 2024 - present
- Elected memberCouncil of the Royal Economic Society1 Jan 2013 - 1 Jan 2016
- Member of the Research, Innovation, and Science Policy Experts (RISE)European Commissioner for Research, Innovation, and Science1 Nov 2012 - 1 Dec 2015
- Chair of the National Statistician’s Advisory Panel on Consumer Price StatisticsUK Statistics Authority, London, United Kingdom15 Apr 2025 - present
FACULTY
- Business School
POSITION NAME
- Chair in Economics