John Sutton (economist)

John Sutton, c. 1977

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

Education

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

Career

He taught at the University of Sheffield before joining LSE in 1977. 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, and at the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago.

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