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The National Institute of Economic and Social Research(Incorporated)

Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities

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Previous officers 88

  1. Professor Nicholas Crafts 2020-2023 Director View profile
  2. Professor Phillip Brown 2019-2025 Director View profile
  3. Sir David Greenaway 2018-2022 Director View profile
  4. Neville Manuel 2017-2023 Director View profile
  5. Ralph Neil Gaskell 2016-2024 Director View profile
  6. Professor Jagjit Singh Chadha 2016-2024 Director View profile
  7. Professor Rachel Susan Griffith 2015-2017 Director View profile
  8. Keith Ashley Victor Mackrell 2015-2023 Director View profile
  9. Sadeq Sayeed 2015-2018 Director View profile
  10. Darling, Alistair Maclean, Nr 2015-2017 Director View profile
  11. Tera Paulina Allas 2015-2021 Director View profile
  12. Stephen Daryl King 2015-2024 Director View profile
  13. Baroness Sarah Elizabeth Mary Hogg 2014-2015 Director View profile
  14. Professor Lorna Winifred Unwin 2014-2020 Director View profile
  15. Peter Jon Kellner 2013-2017 Director View profile
  16. Rt Hon Frank Field 2013-2016 Director View profile
  17. Hamish Malcolm Donald Mcrae 2013-2015 Director View profile
  18. Alexander Jesse Norman 2013-2016 Director View profile
  19. Diane Coyle 2013-2020 Director View profile
  20. Sir Alan Peter Budd 2012-2019 Director View profile
  21. Jonathan Daniel Portes 2011-2015 Director View profile
  22. Lord Matthew Alan Oakeshott 2010-2014 Director View profile
  23. Professor Heather Evelyn Joshi 2009-2014 Director View profile
  24. Professor John Robert Hills 2009-2014 Director View profile
  25. Dr Graeme Ernest John Llewellyn 2009-2019 Director View profile
  26. Professor Timothy Besley 2008-2016 Director View profile
  27. Dame Katharine Mary Barker 2005-2012 Director View profile
  28. Lord Andrew Turnbull 2005-2009 Director View profile
  29. Professor John Francis Ermisch 2005-2015 Director View profile
  30. Bronwyn Nanette Curtis 2004-2015 Director View profile
  31. Professor Stephen Nickell 2002-2008 Director View profile
  32. Dr Colette Bowe 2002-2010 Director View profile
  33. Lord Jonathan Adair Turner 2001-2006 Director View profile
  34. Lord Terence Burns 2001-2011 Director View profile
  35. Nicholas Charles Faithorn Barber 2001-2016 Director View profile
  36. Sir Michael Charles Scholar 2001-2005 Director View profile
  37. Sir Nicholas Jeremy Monck 2001-2013 Director View profile
  38. Willem Hendrik Buiter 2000-2010 Director View profile
  39. Sushil Baldev Wadhwani 1999-2012 Director View profile
  40. Sir Dominic Cadbury 1998-2000 Director View profile
  41. Sir Nicholas Herbert Stern 1998-2000 Director View profile
  42. John Stephen Monks 1998-2002 Director View profile
  43. Charles Richard Bean 1998-2018 Director View profile
  44. Lord Christopher Robin Haskins 1997-1999 Director View profile
  45. Ruth Kelly 1997-2001 Director View profile
  46. Lord Harold Stanley Kalms 1996-2001 Director View profile
  47. Sir Peter Edward Middleton 1996-2006 Director View profile
  48. Dame Deanne Shirley Julius 1996-1999 Director View profile
  49. Sir Ian Charles Rayner Byatt 1996-2002 Director View profile
  50. Professor Kenneth Frank Wallis 1996-2003 Director View profile
  51. Sir John Anthony Craven 1996-2001 Director View profile
  52. Dame Frances Anne Cairncross 1996-2001 Director View profile
  53. Martin Robert Weale 1995-2010 Director View profile
  54. John Stanton Flemming 1994-2002 Director View profile
  55. Sir Frederick Brian Corby 1994-2005 Director View profile
  56. Sir John Seton Cassels 1993-1996 Director View profile
  57. Anthony Barnes Atkinson 1997 Director View profile
  58. Wilfred Beckerman 1996 Director View profile
  59. Professor Michael John Artis 1994 Director View profile
  60. Professor William Brian Reddaway 1994 Director View profile
  61. Michael Vivian Posner 1998 Director View profile
  62. Sir Kenneth Ernest Berrill 1996 Director View profile
  63. Professor Sir Edwin Austin Gossage Robinson 1993 Director View profile
  64. Professor Tadeusz Rybczynski 1998 Director View profile
  65. Ronald Ernest Utiger 1995 Director View profile
  66. Sir George Donald Alistair Macdougall 1996 Director View profile
  67. Professor Robert Charles Oliver Matthews 1996 Director View profile
  68. Professor Zangwill Aubrey Silberston 1996 Director View profile
  69. Charles Albert Eric Goodhart 2008 Director View profile
  70. Hans Hubertus Liesner 2011 Director View profile
  71. David Ker Stout 1998 Director View profile
  72. Professor John Anderson Kay 1997 Director View profile
  73. Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross 1996 Director View profile
  74. Sir Arthur William Knight 1996 Director View profile
  75. Professor David Forbes Hendry 1996 Director View profile
  76. Rt Hon Eric Roll Lord of Ipsden 1996 Director View profile
  77. Rt Hon Douglas Albert Vivian Croham 1996 Director View profile
  78. Marcus Hay Miller 1996 Director View profile
  79. Andrew James Christie Britton 1995 Director View profile
  80. Ronald Walter Archer 1992 Director View profile
  81. Professor Sir John Richard Nicholas Stone 1991 Director View profile
  82. Ronald Dennis Neale Somerville 1998 Director View profile
  83. Chivonne Li-Shan Preston 2017-2018 Secretary View profile
  84. Maureen Andrea Cole-Burns 2014-2017 Secretary View profile
  85. Gillian Sally Clisham 2001-2014 Secretary View profile
  86. Francis Robert Terry 1999-2001 Secretary View profile
  87. Dr John Kirkland 1994-2020 Secretary View profile
  88. Hilary Evelyn Steedman 1994 Secretary View profile

Directors and secretaries as filed at Companies House.

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About

What it does
Research and experimental development on social sciences and humanities
Incorporated
02/06/1938
Registered office
Westminster
Also a registered charity
The National Institute of Economic and Social Research

Grants received

13 grants · £4,887,212 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £4,737,425 (8 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £89,787 (2 grants)
  • Paul Hamlyn Foundation · £60,000
  • Nesta · (2 grants)

Most recent

  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £32,7782023-09-26
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology £57,0092023-09-26
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £150,0002022-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £50,0002019-04-01
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy £800,0002018-04-01
Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from the Companies House officer record and Charity Commission trustee records - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Companies House officer record: the current directors only, past directors excluded.

14 directors on the board

4.1y median 3.3y
average tenure
8.6y
longest tenure

Directors past 6 years

First-time vs portfolio directors

First-time (7)

Portfolio (7)

Left in the last 12 months

Where else this board sits iWhere else this board sitsThe charitable fields these directors govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this company and any charity it is the legal face of.

Professional services 5Finance 3Arts and leisure 2Education 2Business services 1Health and social care 1Other services 1

The sectors these directors govern in elsewhere. This company, and any charity it is the legal face of, are excluded - counting them would just tell you what you are already looking at.

Sources

Official record from Companies House. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Company number
00341010
Status
Active
Type
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Accounts next due
31/12/2026
Edition
Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
Labels
Official record from Companies House · Calculated derived by Governance Register.

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