Professor Ian Walker
Biography
Ian Walker has been Professor of Economics since 2009 at the Lancaster University Management School and is Head of the Department of Economics. He has an undergraduate degree from Liverpool University and did his graduate studies at Warwick. He has been a lifelong academic economist – starting his career as a lecturer in 1977 at Manchester University, moving to become Professor of Economics at Keele in 1988, then to Warwick in 1999. He has been a visiting Professor at Princeton University, UNSW Sydney, Aarhus and Toulouse. He is a Research Fellow at the Geary Institute at UC Dublin and at the Institute for the Study of Labour (IZA) in Bonn. He has a strong interest in the application of economics to policy issues and was a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies for 25 years up to 2008. His research interests are in the operation of labour markets, health economics, and the economics of education. He has written extensively on the returns to education, work incentives, and the economics of divorce. He has a long standing academic interest in gambling and has written on the economics of lottery design and risk taking in Who Wants to be a Millionaire. He hates onions, enjoys fine wine, and loves his family.
Remunerated Interests
Professor of Economics, University of Lancaster
Unremunerated Interests
None
Registered Shareholdings
None
Ownership of Land and Property
Home in Wilmslow
Party Political Activity
None
Other Declarations
None
Date of Registration
26 August 2010