Professor Stern was Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999, and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank, 2000-2003. He was Second Permanent Secretary to Her Majesty’s Treasury from 2003-2005; Director of Policy and Research for the Prime Minister’s Commission for Africa from 2004-2005; Head of the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, published in 2006; and Head of the Government Economic Service from 2003-2007.

Topics

• The Economic Implications of Global
  Climate Change
• Mid-Term Economic Growth
• A New Industrial Revolution
• The Consequences of Profound Changes in the International Division of Labour
• Ethics and Economics

Publications

• Why Are We Waiting? (2015)
• The Global Development of Policy Regimes to Combat Climate Change (2014)
• The New Bihar: Rekindling Governance and Development (with N. K. Singh) (2015, Paperback; 2013, Kindle Edition)
• A Blueprint for a Safer Planet (2009)
• The Global Deal: Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity (2009)
• The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review (2007)

Awards

• Schumpeter Award 2015
• In 2014, Stern was elected a fellow of the Royal Society
• 2013 Stephen H. Schneider Award by Climate One at The Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California
• The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2011, BBVA Foundation
• Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought, Tufts University, 2010
• Fundación Ideas (Madrid) 2010 Award
• International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) Global Environment Award 2010
• CORINE Future Focus Book Prize 2009
• Prince Albert II Foundation Award of Honour 2009
• Asahi Glass Foundation 2009 Blue Planet Prize
• Royal Geographical Society Patron’s Medal 2009
• Building a Better World Award 2008: CH2MHill
• PSA Award, Political Publication of the Year 2007 (Stern Review)
• In 2007, he was made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford
• In 2004, Queen’s Birthday Honours he was made a Knight Bachelor, for services to Economics