Danny Quah is Head of Department and Professor of Economics at The London School of Economics and Political Science. Quah obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his A.B. from Princeton University. He joined LSE in 1991 after having taught as an assistant professor in MIT's Economics Department. In the UK, he has served on the Academic Panels of HM Treasury and the Office for National Statistics. Quah is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. From 1996 through 1998, he held a British Academy Research Award to study ``Growth and distribution in dematerialized, knowledge-based economies'', and from 1998 through 2000, an ESRC award for ``Trade and growth across weightless economies.'' In July 1998 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded him a grant for continued study of the weightless economy and the economics of information technology. He continues to work on income distribution dynamics. To do much of his empirical research, Quah has developed his own econometrics shell tsrf, which he makes freely available (under the GNU Public License). Quah is on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Growth. He had previously served on the editorial boards of European Economic Review Journal of Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomic Dynamics and Review of Economic Studies, and was Programme Chair for the year 2000 European Economics Association Annual Congress. His publications include papers in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He has delivered the Sir Richard Stone Lectures, Invited Lectures to the Econometric Society, the International Economic Association, the Royal Economic Society, and the Scottish Economic Society. At the LSE, Quah has taught research courses in macro-econometrics, the first-year postgraduate macroeconomics course, and the introductory undergraduate microeconomics course to over 700 first-year students.
