Education:

1974-1977 - Clare College, Cambridge
MA (1st Class Honours, Part 2 Economics Tripos).
2006 - Sc.D., University of Cambridge.

Career:

1977-1979 - Overseas Development Institute Fellow, National Statistical Office, Zomba, Malawi.

1979-1987 - Research Officer, Department of Applied Economics, Cambridge (Junior Research Officer to 1984).

1987-1995 - University Lecturer, Faculty of Economics and Politics, Cambridge (University Assistant Lecturer to 30.9.90).

1981-1995 - Director of Studies (to 1992) and Fellow in Economics, Clare College, Cambridge.

1986-1987 - Houblon-Norman Fellow, Bank of England.

1993 - Visiting Scholar,Institute for Empirical Macroeconomics, Federal Reserve Bank, Minneapolis.

1995 - Reader-elect in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Politics, Cambridge. (From 1.10.95)

1995-Present - Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

Research Interests:

Household behaviour, socio - economic dynamics, time - series and micro - econometrics

Other Information:

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OTHER ACTIVITIES:

1990-1997 - Member of HM Treasury Academic Panel.

1995-1997 - Member of HM Treasury Panel of Independent Forecasters (the ‘Wise Men’).

1997-2000 - Chairman ONS Academic Panel.

1999 - Appointed C.B.E. for Services to Economics.

2000-2007 - Member of the Statistics Commission.

2001 - Elected Honorary Fellow, Institute of Actuaries.

2004 - Member of the European Advisor Committee on Statistical Information in the Economic and Social Spheres (CEIES).

2006-present - Member Board for Actuarial Standards.

2007 - DSc Honoris Causa, City University.

Selected Publications:

Sefton, J., van de Ven, J., Weale, M., (forthcoming) Means-testing Retirement Benefits: Fostering Equity or Discouraging Savings, Economic Journal

Khoman, E., Mitchell, J., Weale, M., (forthcoming) Incidence-based Estimates of Healthy Life Expectancy for the United Kingdom: Coherence between Transition Probabilities and Aggregate Life Tables, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A

Weale, M., Pesaran, M.H., (2006) Survey Expectations, Handbook of Economic Forecasting, Edited by C.W.J. Granger and A.Timmerman. North-Holland. Pp 715-776

Sefton, J., Weale, M., (2006) The Concept of Income in a General Equilibrium, Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 73, pp. 219-249

Mitchell, J., Smith, R., Weale, M., Stephen Wright and Eduardo Salazar, (2005) An Indicator of Monthly GDP and an Early Estimate of quarterly GDP, Economic Journal, Vol. 115, pp. 108-129

Weale, M., Cambia-Mendez, G. Kapetanios, G. Smith, R., (2003) Tests of Rank in Reduced-rank Regression Models, Journal of Business Economics and Statistics, Vol. 21, pp. 145-155

Mitchell, J., Smith, R., Weale, M., (2002) Quantification of qualitative firm-level survey data, Economic Journal, Vol. 112, pp. 117-135

Weale, M., Dutta, J., Sefton, J., (2001) Income Distribution and Income Dynamics in the United Kingdom, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Vol. 16, pp. 599- 616

Weale, M., Cambia- Mendez, G. Kapetanios, G. Smith, R., (2001) An Automatic Leading Indicator of Economic Activity: Forecasting GDP Growth for European Countries, Econommetrics Journal, Vol. 4, pp. s56- s90

Weale, M., Sefton, J., Gokhale, J. Kotlikoff, L., (2001) Simulating the Transmission of Wealth Inequality via Bequests, Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 79, pp. 93-128