Andrew John Scott is a British economist, currently Professor of Economics at London Business School, known for his work on longevity and macroeconomics. Previously he was a lecturer at Oxford University, a visiting professor at

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and a researcher at the London School of Economics.

Biography

Scott was born 12 May 1965 in Enfield,

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. He was educated at Firs Farm Primary School and Haberdashers' Aske’s, Elstree. He attended Trinity College, Oxford where he graduated with a first with prizes in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1987. He received a MSc in economics from the

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in 1990 and was elected to a Prize Fellowship to

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in 1990. He was elected in the same year as philosopher

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and historian Scott Mandelbrote. He received his D.Phil (''Essays in Aggregate Consumption'') from Oxford in 1994. He worked briefly as an economist for Credit Suisse First Boston before holding research positions at London Business School and the

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. He then took up a lectureship at Oxford University, a visiting assistant professor at

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before joining London Business School, where he is currently professor of economics, having previously served as deputy dean. Alongside his academic career Scott has been a non-executive director for the UK’s

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and an advisor to the House of Commons, the

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, and H.M.Treasury. He is currently on the advisory board of the UK’s Office for Budget Responsibility and a member of the Cabinet Office Honours Committee (Science and Technology).

Selected awards and recognition

* 2018 Beckhard Prize Best Paper, MIT Sloan Management Review for ''Corporate Implications of Longer Lives'' * 2017 Knowsquare Business Book of the Year Award, ''The 100 Year Life'' *2016 Shortlisted FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year – The 100 Year Life * 2008–11, Scientific Chair, Euro Area Business Cycle Network * 2004–2011 Managing Editor, The Economic Journal * 1994–95, Best Paper Award, Royal Economic Society, ''Consumer confidence and Rational Expectations'' with

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, Economic Journal 1994 Jan Vol 104:422 p 1-19 * 1990–97, Prize Fellowship, All Souls, Oxford

Selected publications

* ''The Economic Value of Targeting Aging'' (with David Sinclair, Martin Ellison), Nature Aging 2021 * ''The Longevity Society'' and ''The Longevity Economy,'' The Lancet Healthy Longevity 2021 * ''Government Debt Management: The Long AND the short of it'' (with Elisa Faraglia, Albert Marcet, Rigas Oikonomou), Review of Economic Studies 2019 * Gratton, Lynda & Scott, Andrew (2016) ''The 100-year life: living and working in an age of longevity'', Bloomsbury 2016. * ''Debt and Deficit Fluctuations and the Structure of Bond Markets'' (with Albert Marcet) Journal of Economic Theory, 2009 * ''Consumer Confidence and Rational Expectations: Are Agents' Beliefs Consistent with the Theory?'' (with

) Economic Journal, January 1994, 104, 1-19

References

External links

Andrew Scott
at London Business School
100 Year Life

The Longevity Forum
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott, Andrew J People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School British economists * English economists Academics of London Business School British business theorists 1965 births Living people