Christine Whitehead

Christine Whitehead is Emeritus Professor in Housing Economics at the London School of Economics and Deputy Director of LSE London.  Christine is an internationally respected applied economist concentrating mainly in the fields of housing economics, finance and policy.  She has worked with a wide range of international agencies as well as regularly for the UK government and Parliament. She is currently specialist adviser to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee. She has just completed a report on The Financialisation of Housing across Twelve Countries. She was an advisor to the Letwin Review on Build-Out Rates and a member of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Housing Commission. She was awarded the OBE for services to housing in 1991.