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Sir Nicholas Stern SM ‘88

Sir Nicholas Stern served as Adviser to the UK Government on the Economics of Climate Change and Development, and reported to the Prime Minister from 2003-2007. He was Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change.

Previously, Stern was Head of the Government Economic Service. From 2003-2005, he was Second Permanent Secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury and from 2004-2005, Director of Policy and Research for the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa. From 2000-2003, Stern was World Bank Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Development Economics. From 1994 until late 1999, he served as Chief Economist and Special Counsellor to the President, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

His most recent book Growth & Empowerment: Making Development Happen was published in April 2005. The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change was published in October 2006. He has published more than 100 articles.

Nicholas Stern is a Fellow of the British Academy (July 1993), Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1998). He received a B.A. from Cambridge University (Mathematics), and a D.Phil. from Oxford University (Economics).