Sir Nicholas Stern has been Second Permanent Secretary to the Treasury and Head of the Government Economic Service since October 2003.

Nick was previously the Chief Economist and Senior Vice President of the World Bank and Chief Economist to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development.

Nick spent a large part of his career in academic life as Professor in Economics at the LSE and in various research and teaching positions at Oxford and Warwick universities, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, the Indian Statistical Institute in Bangalore and Delhi, and the People’s University of China in Beijing. He has served on committees of OXFAM, ODA, and the UN. Nick is also a Fellow of the British Academy and a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

His first books were on tea in Kenya and the Green Revolution in India (where he lived for 8 months in a village in UP in 1974/75). He has books on crime and the criminal statistics in the UK and a few on public finance and development. His latest book “Growth & Empowerment: Making Development Happen” is published in March.

Nick is married, has three children and is a supporter of AFC Wimbledon.