It is found at the Royal Economic Association (RES) announcement Professor Imran Raslu (UCL) I will be confirmed as President of Res next year.
With Professor Rasul’s announcement as president, Res simultaneously confirmed the appointment of Professor Tony Venables (Oxford) 2025-2026 presidential election and as Professor Diane Coyle (Cambridge) The appointment was officially made for the 2026-2027 presidential election last week’s RES Annual General Meeting (AGM) from May 21st to 23rd.
Rasul, a professor at the University of London, is known for his work on wealth concentration and economic inequality. He is the director of the Institute for Financial Studies’ Center for Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy, and was a council member and council member of the Royal Society of Economics (RES) from 2018-2023, and chaired the RES Publishing Committee from 2018-21.
Venables is a senior researcher at Oxford and has vast expertise in international trade and economic development. Like professors at Manchester, Southampton, LSE and Oxford, he also served as Chief Economist at the UK Department of International Development.
Both sit in two governing bodies of resolution. Trustees’ Committee and Res Council.
Rasul will be handed over from Ir Christopher Pisarides (lse), was the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Economics.
The AGM also confirmed six new councillors who will be working from May 2025 to May 2030.
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