David Henderson: Summary CV

David Henderson: Summary CV

David Henderson, who is British, was formerly (1984-92) Head of the Economics and Statistics Department of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (the OECD) in Paris. Before this, he had worked as an academic economist in Britain, first in Oxford (Fellow of Lincoln College) and later in University College London (Professor of Economics); as a national civil servant (first as an Economic Adviser in Her Majesty's Treasury, and later as Chief Economist in the UK Ministry of Aviation); as an international civil servant (with the World Bank, where he was at one stage Director of the Economics Department); and as a consultant (in Greece, Malaysia, and the World Bank). In 1985 he gave the BBC Reith Lectures, which were published in book form under the title of Innocence and Design: The Influence of Economic Ideas on Policy (Blackwell, 1986).

Since leaving the OECD he has been an independent author and consultant, and has acted as Visiting Fellow or Professor at the OECD Development Centre (Paris), the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels), Monash University (Melbourne), the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques (Paris), the University of Melbourne, the Royal Institute of International Affairs (London), the New Zealand Business Roundtable, the Melbourne Business School, and the Institute of Economic Affairs (London). He is currently a Visiting Professor at the WestminsterBusinessSchool, London, and also at the London School of Economics. He is an Honorary Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, and in 1992 he was made Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George.

A list of his main recent publications is attached on the following page.

Main recent publications

The Changing Fortunes of Economic Liberalism (London, Institute of Economic Affairs [IEA], 1998, and Melbourne, 1999; reissued by the IEA with a new preface, 2001)
Anti-Liberalism 2000: The Rise of New Millennium Collectivism, the text for the 2000 Wincott Lecture delivered in London (published in 2001 by the IEA)
Misguided Virtue: False Notions of Corporate Social Responsibility (Wellington, New Zealand Business Roundtable, 2001; published in London, with an additional concluding chapter, by the IEA)
‘WTO 2002: Imaginary crisis, real problems’ (World Trade Review, Vol. 1 No. 3, 2002).
A critique (with Ian Castles) of the economic and statistical work of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change, published in two successive articles in Energy and Environment, 2003 (Vol. 14, Nos. 2/3 and No. 6).
The Role of Business in the Modern World: Progress, Pressures, and Prospects for the Market Economy (London, Institute of Economic Affairs; Wellington, New Zealand Business Roundtable; and Washington, DC, Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2004).
‘Globalisation, Economic Progress and New Millennium Collectivism’, a review article published in 2004 in World Economics, Vol. 5 No. 3.
‘Capitalism’, Chapter 14 of Towards a Liberal Utopia, edited by Philip Booth and published in 2005 by the IEA. Written in collaboration with Geoffrey Owen.
‘International Comparisons of Real GDP: Issues of Theory and Practice’, World Economics, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2005. Written in collaboration with Ian Castles.
‘Economics, Climate Change Issues and Global Salvationism’, text used as a basis for a talk to the London Political Economy Club in May 2005, later published by the American Institute for Economic Research.
‘SRES, IPCC and the Treatment of Economic Issues: What Has Emerged?’, Energy and Environment, Vol. 16 No. 3 & 4, 2005.
‘The Uneasy Trend to Greater Economic Freedom’, to be published as a chapter in The Effect of Interjurisdictional Competition on Regulation, edited by Peter Bernholz and Roland Vaubel.
‘Governments and Climate Change Issues: The Case for a New Approach’, Energy and Environment, Vol. 17 No. 4, 2006.