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Professor Lord (Richard) Layard

Emeritus Professor of Economics, Co-Director, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science

Year Elected: 2003

His work on education (where he provided the foundation for the 1963 Robbins Report), unemployment, general public policy and the economics of transition has had a significant impact on policy. He was one of the intellectual and practical driving forces behind the Government's New Deal programmes, and his work helped to provide the framework for European thinking on unemployment.