British economist
Nicholas Bloom is the William Eberle Professor in the Department of Economics at Stanford University , a Courtesy Professor at Stanford Business School [ 2] Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research , and a co-director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research .[ 4]
He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society , and the recipient of the Frisch Medal in 2010, the Bernacer Prize in 2012, the Center for Economic Studies Distinguished Fellow award in 2020, the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022[ 5] 50 Most Influential (Bloomberg ranking) in 2022.[ 6]
Education
Bloom was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He completed a PhD at University College London in 2001 under the supervision of John Van Reenen and Richard Blundell .[ 7]
Career and research
His research focuses on the measurement and impact of uncertainty on investment, employment and growth. He also works on the measurement of management practices and productivity with Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, on working from home, and on innovation. He co-founded research websites on policy uncertainty,[ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] working from home .[ 12]
From 1996 to 2002 he worked at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and on business tax policy at HM Treasury . From 2002 to 2003 he worked at McKinsey & Company , and in 2003 he moved to the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics , and to Stanford University in 2005.
He spoke on working from home at the 2014 White House Working Families Summit alongside Trade Unionists , Business Leaders, President Obama and Vice President Biden .,[ 13] [ 14] remote work has been cited and discussed in The New York Times [ 15] The Wall Street Journal [ 16] Freakonomics Radio [ 17]
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International National Academics
