John Sutton (economist)

John Sutton (born 10 August 1948) is the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics.^[1]

John Sutton, c. 1977

Education

Sutton received his undergraduate education at University College Dublin, a graduate degree from Trinity College Dublin, and earned his Phd at University of Sheffield.

Career

He taught at the University of Sheffield before joining LSE in 1977.^[1] He has been a visiting associate professor at Tokyo University, a Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School, and a visiting professor of economics at Harvard University,^[1] and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.

Sutton was also president of the Royal Economic Society from 2004 to 2007.^[2] He is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association and a member of Executive and Supervisory Committee at CERGE-EI in Prague.