Eric French

Eric French is the Montague Burton Professor of Industrial Relations and Labour Economics at the University of Cambridge; professor of economics at University College London; co-director of the Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and a fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research. His primary research interests are labor, public finance, health, and applied econometrics.

Previously he was a senior economist and research advisor on the microeconomics team in the economic research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He also taught at the Department of Economics and the Business School at Northwestern University.