Richard J. Smith

Richard J. Smith is Emeritus Professor of Econometric Theory and Economic Statistics at the University of Cambridge, Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne and Honorary Professor at University College London. He was ESCoE Academic Co-Director 2016-19 and has held chairs at the Universities of Cambridge, Warwick and Bristol.

He is a C.Stat., a Fellow of the British Academy, Econometric Society, International Association for Applied Econometrics and Journal of Econometrics, Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, was an Honorary Professor at the University of Warwick 2008-13 and held a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship 2003-6. He is a Centre Fellow, Centre for Microdata Methods and Practice, UCL/IFS, and a Fellow of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He is a past member of the GSS Methodology Advisory Panel and of the ONS Academic Econometric Panel. He is a past member of the Executive Committee and Council of the Royal Economic Society. He has held Visiting Professorships at many institutions including Yale University, UC Berkeley, Université de Montréal, CREST-INSEE, Paris, and the University of Melbourne. He is past Managing Editor of The Econometrics Journal published by the Royal Economic Society, an Advisory Board member and past Co-editor of Econometric Theory and past Associate Editor of Econometrica. He has published extensively in leading international economics and statistics journals including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Biometrika and Journal of the American Statistical Association.