British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Professor Stephen Machin
Professor of Economics, University College London

Year elected: 2006

He is one of the most innovative and prolific writers in applied labour economics in Britain. His work spans the fields of inequality in earnings, the impact of the minimum wage on employment and earnings, technological change, trade unions, corporate performance and education. He has organized a very active and increasingly influential group of researchers in the economics of education, whose work is attracting intense interest from policy makers and academics.