Jonathan Leape is Executive Director of the International Growth Centre (IGC), and Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE). As head of the IGC since 2013, he led the response to COVID, including co-chairing the FCDO COVID-19 Economic Advisory Group with FCDO Chief Economist Rachel Glennerster and, more recently, pivoted IGC’s strategy towards sustainable growth. His research interests are in taxation, regulation, structural transformation and economic growth. He was the founding Director of the Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa, established at LSE in 1990 as an initiative of the Commonwealth Heads of Government to support the democratic transition in South Africa. He served as the Chief Academic Advisor on Taxation to the UK Government Economic Service. He holds an AB from Harvard University, a BA/MA from Oxford University and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow.
Jonathan Leape also serves as the Interim Country Director of IGC Jordan.
