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Professor Tim Leunig is a multiple international prize-winning economist.
He has taught at the LSE for 25 years, as well as at Oxford, and has held visiting faculty positions in the US and Europe.
He has worked for the UK government for over 10 years, including serving as economic adviser to two Chancellors of the Exchequer, Sajid Javid and Rishi Sunak, and three Housing Secretaries, Stephen Clarke, Sajid Javid and Michael Gove. He also served as Chief Analyst and Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department for Education.
During his time in government, he developed the UK furlough scheme during Covid-19, which supported more than 3 million jobs. He also developed the post-Covid rent arbitration scheme, the schools national funding formula, and Progress 8, the method used to assess the effectiveness of secondary schools.
He is Director of Public First Consulting and an Associate Member of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Society of Arts and the Royal Historical Society, and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
In July 2026, he was appointed a life peer in the House of Lords. He sits as a Liberal Democrat peer.