Paul Cheshire

Experience Keywords

Development policy; Economic geography; Housing markets; Land use regulation; Local economic development; Planning; Real estate economics; Regional development; Regional growth; Territorial competition; Urban economics; Urban land; Urban policy

Research Summary

An economist by training, Paul has a strong interest in policy analysis and policy related fields. Recently named one of the planning industry’s most influential people, he has authored numerous papers and has won the Donald Robertson Memorial Prize and the Royal Economic Society''s Prize for the best paper in the Economic Journal. He won the European Regional Science Association/European Investment Bank’s prize for lifetime contribution to regional science research in 2009.

He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences and of the Weimer School, and has held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship.

Paul has spent time as an advisor and as a consultant for the European Commission, the World Bank, the OECD, the UN and other international organisations as well as the UK government, including being a member of the Expert Panel for the Barker Review of the Planning system, and an Academic Friend of the Eddington Transport Study.

He was a Board member of the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit and a member of two of the Department of Communities and Local Government''s Expert Panels. He is a member of the Internation Scientific Committee of Nicis and of the conseil scientifique du Grand Paris.

Research Countries

Britain; EU

Languages

French [Spoken: Intermediate, Written: Basic]