This committee advises the Trustee Board on the success of the Society’s existing publications and on the development of possible new publishing activities. It monitors the performance of the journal publisher and ensures effective liaison between the Society and its publisher.
It monitors the external environment to ensure that potential changes are acted on as soon as possible and provides advice on editorial appointments.
Chair of Publications Committee
Fabien Postel-Vinay is a Professor of Economics at University College London and a Research Director at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is currently the Head of the Economics Department at UCL. He is also an IZA Research Fellow, a member of the Centre for Macroeconomics and a founding member of the European Search and Matching (SaM) network. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and received the Frisch medal, jointly with Jean-Marc Robin, in 2006.
Past-President
Imran Rasul is a Professor of Economics at University College London, Director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and Co-Director of the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Centre on Wealth Concentration, Inequality and the Economy. In these roles he has supported policy engagement among economists, advised early career researchers, and brought together research and education on the study of wealth concentration and economic inequality. He has served as a Council Member and Trustee of the Royal Economic Society and chaired the RES Publications Committee from 2018-21.
Head of Publishing at the British Pharmacological Society
Charles Whalley is Head of Publishing at the British Pharmacological Society, with overall responsibility for the Society’s publishing portfolio. He is also a Council member of the Society Publishers’ Coalition, an Associate Editor for the journal Learned Publishing, and a member of the ALPSP Education Committee. Prior to joining the Society, he worked at Taylor & Francis.
Editor-in-Chief of The Economic Journal
Francesco Lippi is a Professor of Economics at LUISS University and a Senior Fellow at the Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance (EIEF). His research concerns monetary economics, inflation and the interactions between wage-setting and monetary institutions. Francesco previously served as a Joint Managing Editor of The Economic Journal and as an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Central Banking.
Editor-in-Chief of The Econometrics Journal
Dennis Kristensen is Professor of Economics at University College London, Research Associate at CeMMaP and Institute for Fiscal Studies, International Fellow at Aarhus Center for Econometrics (ACE), and Research Fellow at Essex Centre for Macro and Financial Econometrics (ECMFE). His main research interests are econometric theory, computational economics, applied microeconomics and quantitative finance. He was previously Co-Editor of The Econometrics Journal (2015-2025) and has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Journal of Time Series Analysis, and Review of Economic Studies.
Trustee and Council member (until 2028)
David Jaeger is Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews. His research areas include education, migration, conflict, and applied econometrics. He has held regular positions at the City University of New York Graduate Center, the University of Cologne, and the College of William and Mary. He is the Editor of the Scottish Journal of Political Economy and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Wine Economics. David is a Research Fellow at IZA and CEPR and, prior to moving to St Andrews, was a Research Associate at the NBER.
Trustee and Council member (until 2030)
RES Chief Executive
A social scientist by background, Leighton has a postgraduate diploma in Voluntary Sector Management from Cass Business School and a diploma in Charity Management from the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators. He is a Non Executive Director for The Evidence Quarter and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Leighton previously held senior roles at a large academic publisher and at the Microbiology Society.
