Professor Paul Mizen

Paul Mizen is a Professor in Economics and Vice Dean, Research, at King’s Business School, King’s College London. Paul is also Deputy Director of the Economic Statistics Centre of Excellence (ESCoE). Prior to his appointment in July 2023, Paul was Professor of Monetary Economics at the University of Nottingham and a Visiting Professor at the European University Institute, Florence, Princeton University and University of Vienna.

He has been a visiting scholar to the Bank for International Settlements, the Deutsche Bundesbank, the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Federal Reserve, and many other central banks. He was the inaugural 200th Anniversary Visiting Professor at the Central Bank of Austria in 2016.

The main focus of his research is the use of economic statistics to support monetary and fiscal policy, corporate investment and productivity. He has published seven books and more than 120 research articles is many leading economics journals including the Economic Journal, Economica, Review of Economics and Statistics. He is listed by RePEc among the top 3 per cent authors in Europe. His work has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Spanish.

He is principal investigator and founder (with Nick Bloom) of the ESRC Decision Maker Panel, the Working From Home and Management Expectations Survey projects and works closely with co-authors at Chicago-Booth, Imperial, LSE, MIT-Sloan, Northwestern-Kellogg and Stanford GSB.

Since 2016, he has secured over £13m in grants from the ESRC, Research England, UKRI, Nuffield and the ONS. As principal investigator of the ESRC Decision Maker Panel and a consultant to the Bank of England, his research has supported economic policy at the Bank of England, BEIS, COBRA, the Cabinet Office, 10 Downing St., HM Treasury, the Home Office and Department for Transport.

Paul is Chairman and Trustee of the Money Macro and Finance Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the National Statistician’s Committee for Advice on Standards for Economic Statistics (NSCASE).

From 2018-2022 he was an ONS Fellow and member of the Economic Experts Working Group and from 2019-2023 he was a member of the ESRC Grant Assessment Panel. He is a member of the advisory boards for the ONS Management and Expectations Survey, the ONS Business Impact and Conditions Survey, and member of the expert panel for The Productivity Institute Data Lab.

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