Role: Professor of Economics

Email: james.banks@manchester.ac.uk

Tel: 0161 275 4473

Location: Arthur Lewis Building-3.020
School of Social Sciences
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

Websites

• School of Social Sciences

James Banks is Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester and Deputy Research Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS). He received his BSc and MSc, both in Economics, from Bristol and the London School of Economics respectively, joining the IFS as a research economist on completing his MSc in 1990. At the IFS he subsequently completed a PhD in Economics at University College London, directed the research into consumption and savings (1992-1999) and served as Deputy Director of the Institute from 1997 to 2002. In 2002 he changed roles, becoming Deputy Research Director of IFS and joining the faculty at UCL where he was Professor of Economics. He moved to Manchester in 2010 and retains a half-time appointment at the IFS as Deputy Research Director and Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy.

• Co-Principal Investigator, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
• Co-Director, ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at IFS
• Chair of Understanding Society Scientific Advisory Committee
• Trustee of the Nuffield Foundation
• Member of Understanding Society Governing Board
• Member of ESRC, MRC and Wellcome Joint Expert Advisory Group on Data Access
• Member of Access Oversight Committee for CLS cohort biomedical data
• Member of UK Government Pension Statistics Advisory Group
• Member of International Scientfic Advisory Group, China Health and Longitudinal Aging Study
• Member of International Scientfic Advisory Group, Longitudinal Aging Study of India
• Member of International Scientfic Advisory Group, Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Ageing
• Member of International Scientfic Advisory Group, The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing