NBER profile: John Van Reenen.

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John Van Reenen has been a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Labor Studies since 2006. He has also been Director of the Centre for Economic Performance and a professor in the Department of Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE) since 2003. He is currently the Denning Visiting Professor at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Van Reenen received his B.A. from Cambridge University (UK) in 1988, his M.Sc. from the LSE, and his Ph.D. from University College London in 1993. From 1998-9, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. From 1994-2003, he was a Professor of Economics at University College London. Between 1999 and 2002, Van Reenen was a senior advisor to the UK Secretary of State for Health and Prime Minister.

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