The Royal Economic Society (RES) has announced that Professor Imran Rasul (UCL) is confirmed as RES President for the upcoming year.

Together with the announcement of Professor Rasul as President, the RES simultaneously confirmed the appointment of Professor Tony Venables (Oxford) as President-Elect for 2025-2026, and Professor Diane Coyle (Cambridge) as President-Elect for 2026-2027, following the RES Annual General Meeting (AGM) last week, 21-23 May, where the appointments were formalised.

Rasul, a professor at University College London, is known for his work on wealth concentration and economic inequality. He is Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and served as a Council Member and Trustee of the Royal Economic Society (RES) from 2018-2023 and Chaired the RES Publications Committee from 2018-21.

Venables is a senior research fellow at Oxford, and has vast expertise in international trade and economic development. As well as professorships at Manchester, Southampton, LSE, and Oxford, he also served as chief economist in the UK Department for International Development.

Both will now sit on the two governing bodies of the RES, the Trustee Board and the RES Council. 

Rasul takes over from Prof. Sir Christopher Pissarides (LSE), 2010 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, who remains on the RES Council in the role of Immediate Past-President.

The AGM also confirmed six new Council members, who will serve from May 2025 to May 2030.

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