Download Professor Andrew Sentance, Warwick Business School

Professor Andrew Sentance, Warwick Business School
Andrew Sentance is part-time Professor of Sustainable Business at Warwick Business
School, based in the Marketing and Strategic Management Department.
He joined Warwick University in November 2006 as a part-time Professorial Fellow
based in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation and moved to
the Business School in July 2008. He is working with colleagues at the Business
School and across the University to develop a multi-disciplinary programme of
research investigating the economic, social and technological challenges arising from
the transition to a Low Carbon Society.
He is also an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank
of England, appointed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in 2006. The MPC is
responsible for setting interest rates in the UK to meet the Government’s inflation
target.
Andrew studied economics at Cambridge University and the London School of
Economics, where he gained his PhD. His interest in environmental issues and
climate change policy developed in his previous role at British Airways, where he was
Chief Economist and Head of Environmental Affairs. From 1999 to 2006 he
represented the airline industry in discussions within the International Civil Aviation
Organisation (ICAO) aimed at limiting the contribution of aviation to climate change.
He joined British Airways in 1998 from the London Business School, where he was
Director of the Centre for Economic Forecasting. From 1986 to 1993 he worked for
the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), becoming their Director of Economic
Affairs in 1989. In that capacity, he was a founder member of the Treasury’s Panel of
Independent Forecasters - established in 1992 to provide advice to the Chancellor of
the Exchequer.
Andrew is also a member of the Commission for Integrated Transport, which provides
independent advice to the UK government on transport policy and a member of the
independent Green Fiscal Commission. He is a Fellow and former Chairman of the
Society of Business Economists, a trustee of the Anglo-German Foundation and holds
visiting professorships at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Cranfield
University.
He has published articles on a wide range of macroeconomic and business issues, and
on the application of climate change policies in the aviation industry.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Rebalancing the British economy" The Business Economist, Vol. 24, No.1, Winter
1992
“Are we entering a new golden age of economic growth?” Economic Outlook,
November 1995 (translated into French and republished in Problèmes economiques,
May 1996)
“The rise of Asia and structural change in the world economy.” Economic Outlook,
Aug 1996
“Modelling and forecasting UK public finances”, Fiscal Studies, Vol. 19, No.1,
February 1998 (with Stephen Hall and John O’Sullivan)
“Macroeconomic policy and UK economic performance” , Chapter 2 of Britain’s
Economic Performance, T. Buxton, P. Chapman and P. Temple (eds), Routledge,
1998
“Airport slot auctions: desirable or feasible?” Journal of Utilities Policy, vol 11/1,
February 2003
“Sustainable growth of UK airport capacity” Chapter 12 of Air Transport and
Infrastructure: The Challenges Ahead, Dieter Helm and Derek Holt (eds), OXERA
Publications, 2003
“Aviation and climate change – can emissions trading deliver a solution?” Chapter 22
of The Finance of Climate Change, Kenny Tang (ed), Risk Books, 2005
“Aviation growth and emissions in a carbon-constrained world”, The Business
Economist, Vol. 36, No 3, Autumn 2005