Anthony Venables

Anthony Venables CBE
File:4.2- Development strategy and structural transformation (10035234474).jpg
Born	Anthony James Venables (1953-04-25) 25 April 1953
Nationality	British
Institution	University of Oxford, International Growth Centre
Field	International Economics, Spatial Economics
Alma mater	University of Cambridge University of Oxford

Anthony James Venables, CBE, (born 25 April 25, 1953), is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.

Venables is known as one of the pioneers of New Economic Geography. He co-authored along with Paul Krugman and Masahisa Fujita the influential book The Spatial Economy - Cities, Regions and International Trade (2001).

He is the current director of the Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource Rich Economies (OxCarre). He also serves on the Steering Group of the International Growth Centre. From 2005 to 2008, he held the position of Chief Economist at the UK Department for International Development.

Education

Venables studied economics at Clare College, Cambridge, where he obtained his B.A. in 1974. After completing his undergraduate degree, he then took up his studies at St. Antony's College, Oxford. He then became a lecturer at various universities before completing his D.Phil. in economics in 1984 from Worcester College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of New College, Oxford.

External links

• Venables' page at Oxford