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Professor David Blanchflower
Monetary Policy Committee Member

David ‘Danny’ Blanchflower was appointed as an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee with effect from 1 June 2006. Danny is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In addition he is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Studies at the University of Munich and a Research Fellow at The Institute for the Study of Labor at the University of Bonn.

Danny is a labour economist who has published widely on wage determination; youth labour markets; entrepreneurship, trade unions and happiness. He has advised a number of international bodies including the ILO and the OECD, and was a member of a commission which examined the Swedish labor market. He has been a member of the editorial board of a number of journals. His book 'The Wage Curve' won Princeton University's Richard A Lester Prize.

Danny obtained his BA in Economics from the University of Leicester (1973), his Masters in Economics from the University of Wales (1983) and his PhD in Economics from the University of London (Queen Mary and Westfield - 1985) as well as an honorary Masters degree from Dartmouth (1993) and an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Leicester (2007).

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