Tony Venables
Senior Research Fellow (Honorary)
Tony Venables is a Senior Research Fellow in the Dept of Economics at Oxford, where he was previously BP Professor of Economics.
He is President of the Royal Economic Society (2026-27), and a Fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, and the Royal Economic Society. Former positions include Chief Economist at the UK Department for International Development, professor at the London School of Economics, research manager of the trade research group in the World Bank, and adviser to the UK Treasury.
He has published extensively in the areas of international trade and spatial economics, including work on trade and imperfect competition, economic integration, multinational firms, and economic geography. Publications include The spatial economy; cities, regions and international trade, with M. Fujita and P. Krugman (MIT press, 1999), and Multinationals in the World Economy with G. Barba Navaretti (Princeton 2004).
