Professor David Bell FRSE
Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Stirling
David Bell is a part-time professor of economics at the University of Stirling. He also holds an honorary professorship at the University of Glasgow and a visiting professorship at the University of Edinburgh. He was educated at the University of Aberdeen (MA Economics & Statistics) and the London School of Economics (MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics) and took his PhD at the University of Strathclyde. His main economic interests are labour, fiscal policy and social care. He has been an adviser to committees of both the UK and Scottish Parliaments. He is a co-investigator of HAGIS – the longitudinal study of ageing in Scotland. He is also a member of the technical board of SHARE (the Study of Health and Retirement in Europe) and the ONS Stakeholder Advisory Panel on Labour Market Statistics. He is also a board member at the Port of Cromarty Firth.
He was awarded a CBE for services to economics and public policy in 2017 and is also a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and of the Academy of Social Sciences.
In his spare time, he is a keen bird-watcher and was recently captain of Royal Dornoch Golf Club.
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Resources
The Spring/Summer 2025 edition of ReSourcE explores what the future holds for Scotland's rural environments.
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Advice Papers
The prices in remote rural communities for some essential goods were already higher than those in urban centres.
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Advice Papers
The RSE has submitted evidence to the Independent Commission on Competitive and Fair Taxation.
