BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Tim Besley has been awarded a BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award. Image credit: LSE

Professor Sir Tim Besley (1983 PPE, Honorary Fellow) has been awarded a prestigious BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Economics, Finance and Management. He shares the award jointly with Torsten Persson (Stockholm University) and Guido Tabellini (Bocconi University) for their work in transforming political economy into a modern, empirical, interdisciplinary science.

The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards are an international award programme recognising significant contributions in the areas of scientific research and cultural creation. The Awards are presented in eight categories, recognising contributions of singular impact that significantly enlarge the stock of knowledge in a discipline, open up new fields, or build bridges between disciplinary areas.

Tim Besley is School Professor of Economics and Political Science and W Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics. He is one of nine members of the UK’s National Infrastructure Commission, and has served as an external member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee.

He is President of the Royal Economic Society and a Fellow of the Econometric Society and British Academy.  He is also a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

More information is available on the BBVA Frontiers of Knowledge Awards website.