SIMON BURGESS
Simon Burgess is Professor of Economics at University of Bristol, and Director of
CMPO: Centre for Market and Public Organisation. Simon completed his PhD in
Oxford in 1987. Since then he has worked on unemployment dynamics, job security,
poverty, economics of marriage, divorce and fertility, education, ethnic segregation,
and neighbourhoods. As part of his work under CMPO he works on incentives in the
public sector; education; the role of choice in education and health. For three years he
was Dean of Research of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at Bristol. He is a
Research Fellow of CEPR and IZA in Bonn, and was Director of an EU-funded
network on a “Dynamic Approach to Europe’s Unemployment Problem”. He served
as an elected member of the Royal Economic Society’s Committee for Women in
Economics.