David Blanchflower

David Blanchflower is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. His areas of research include unemployment, labour economics and well-being. He has published extensively on happiness and the relationship between the economy, social factors and wellbeing. His recent work has been on the declining mental health of the young.

He was previously member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England, and was honored as a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for ‘services to the Monetary Policy Committee and economics’. He is a part-time professor at the University of Glasgow, UK and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is currently an advisor to the Human Development Report Office at the United Nations.

“As a researcher who has been interested in wellbeing and the relationship to the economy I have worked with numerous national and global survey datasets over my career. The Global Mind data has a scale, breadth and timeliness that has not been available before and is one of the richest and topical datasets I have worked with. I am excited by its enormous potential as a resource for researchers around the world to examine many of the questions I have grappled with over the years. It helps us understand how the world is now.”