Rachel Griffith
Rachel Griffith CBE (born May 16, 1963 ) is an American - British economist and university professor .
Career, research and teaching
Griffith graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1986 . She then worked for Ethical Investment Research Services before 1989 in parallel at the City of London Polytechnic , a Master's degree in Econometrics recorded. After graduating in 1991, she moved to the university as a lecturer , and has been at the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 1993 . Parallel to her work there, she completed a Ph.D. between 1993 and 1999. - Graduated from Keele University . From 2003, she worked in parallel at University College London , where she was appointed professor in 2007 , and since 2010 as professor at the University of Manchester . Since 2016 she has been Director of Research at the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
Griffith's work focuses on industrial economics , food economics and corporate taxation .
In 2015, Griffith was the first woman in the organization's history to preside over the European Economic Association . In 2019/20 she was President of the Royal Economic Society . She has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2011, the Econometric Society since 2016 and the Academy of Social Sciences since 2017 . From 2012 to 2014 she headed the economics department of the British Academy. In 2017 she was knighted with the rank of Commander . In 2014 she received the Birgit Grodal Prize of the European Economic Association.
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| SURNAME | Griffith, Rachel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American-British economist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1963 |