Professor Wendy Carlin elected as Fellow of the British Academy

Congratulations to Professor Wendy Carlin for her new appointment as a Fellow of the British Academy!

Professor Carlin is a Professor of Economics in the Economics Department at UCL, Research Fellow of the CEPR and external professor at the Santa Fe Institute.

Her research interests lie in macroeconomics, institutions and economic performance, the economics of transition and the evolution of economic research and education.

Her fourth macroeconomics book, subtitled ‘Institutions, instability, and inequality’, co-authored with David Soskice, is published this year and she is currently working on developing a new paradigm for political economy to include an expanded space for policy design beyond the state-market continuum.

Professor Carlin is a member of the Expert Advisory Panel of the Office for Budget Responsibility, leads the CORE Econ project, which is changing economics education around the world, and is co-director of the Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy at UCL.

In 2015, she was awarded a CBE for services to economics and public finance and in 2022, elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

About the British Academy

The British Academy, founded in 1902, is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences, and brings together over 1600 leading minds in these subjects from the UK and overseas.

It is also a funding body for research - nationally and internationally - and a forum for debate and engagement.