RES Council

Current membership of RES Council

  • President:  C R Bean
  • Past President: Professor R Blundell
  • Vice-Presidents: Sir Tony Atkinson, Lord Burns, Sir Partha Dasgupta,  J M Hardie, Sir David Hendry, Sir James Mirrlees, S J Nickell, R Portes, P Rowlatt, A K Sen, A Silberston, J Sutton, Sir John Vickers
  • To hold office until AGM 2014: S Burgess, N Crafts, S Dale, D Miles, M Stevens, C Waddams
  • To hold office until AGM 2015: M Armstrong, P Mason, D Ramsden, L Reichlin, P Wallace
  • To hold office until AGM 2016: P. Collier, J. Grice, J. Haskel, G. Levy, G. Lyons, A. Prat
  • To hold office until AGM 2017: M. Browning, T.Harford, P. Johnson, K. Scharf, P. Sinclair, S. Smith
  • To hold office until AGM 2018: O Bandiera, V Bhaskar, S Brown, V Crawford, A Haldane, J Portes
  • Treasurer: M Robson

RES Council Members since 1974 (pdf)

RES Council Elections

The Royal Economic Society holds elections each year for members to serve on the Council. SIX members are elected annually and serve for a period of five years. Members of the Society are reminded on an annual basis of their right as members to propose names to be considered for election to the RES Council. The formal procedure is that the Nominating Committee, which meets early in February, considers all such names and puts forward to Council a list for approval. This is then the subject of a ballot of all members of the Society in the autumn. The successful candidates join Council after formal adoption at the following AGM. All members of the Society are eligible to vote.

Nomination Process.
Council members elected in the Council Election 2013, will serve for the period 2014-2019.
Any member of the Society who would like to make a nomination may email the Secretary General before the end of January each year for the election in the Autumn. In addition to the name(s), there should be either a brief CV or a link to one.


Election Process. The 2012 Election was held online for the first time and resulted in a doubling of the number of ballots received. The Society will therefore be using this process for future elections. For more information on the ballot please go to RES Council Election 2012. For the minority of members for whom we do not currently have an email address, a postal ballot was sent out as in previous years.

J.A. Beath
Secretary-General.

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