Nicholas Stern (Lord Stern) is a globally recognised economist, and one the world's leading authorities on climate change, international development and global economic growth. Lord Stern has been Chair of the Grantham Research Institute since it was founded in 2008. He is Chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the LSE, President of the Royal Economic Society, Director of the India Observatory, Fellow of the British Academy and Co-Chair of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. From 2000 to 2003 he was Chief Economist at the World Bank, and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. From 1994 to 1999 he was Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. From 2005 to 2007 he was adviser to the UK Government on the Economics of Climate Change and Development, reporting to the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In this role he headed the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change. He was also Head of the Government Economic Service from 2003 to 2007; and was also Director of Policy and Research for the Prime Minister's Commission for Africa. In 2009 he was President of the European Economic Association. His work in academic life has included teaching and research positions at many of the most prestigious institutions in the world, including the London School of Economics, the University of Oxford, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),, the Ecole Polytechnique and the Collège de France in Paris, the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore and Delhi, and the People's University of China in Beijing. His research and publications have focused on the economics of climate change, economic development and growth, economic theory, tax reform, public policy and the role of the state and economies in transition. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004, made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford in 2007, and appointed Companion of Honour for services to economics, international relations and tackling climate change in 2017. He has published more than 15 books and 100 articles. He holds 13 honorary degrees and has received the Blue Planet Prize (2009), the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award (2010), the Leontief Prize (2010), and the Schumpeter Award (2015), amongst many others.