Professor Paul Cheshire

Paul Cheshire is a Professor of Economic Geography at LSE. He has a strong interest in policy analysis and policy related fields. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences and of the Weimer School. He was the winner of the Royal Economic Society's best paper prize in 2005. Apart from his academic work he 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. Until its abolition in 2010, 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 currently a member of the Department's Planning Sounding Board and in 2013 was named one of the planning industry's 100 most influential people.