Frank Cowell

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Frank A. Cowell is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work includes important contributions to the fields of income and wealth distribution, inequality, poverty and taxation.

Cowell was educated at Ardingly College before entering Trinity College, Cambridge where he completed his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D in Economics. Cowell was briefly Lecturer in Economics at University of Keele before moving to LSE in 1977. He was also Associate Editor of the Journal of Public Economics from 1988-2001.

Cowell is the Editor of Economica and Associate Editor of Hacienda Pública Española/Revista de Economia Publica and Journal of Income Inequality. He is also the Director of Distributional Analysis Research Programme at the Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines.

His most recent book is Microeconomics, Principles and Analysis, published by the OUP.

Cowell is fluent in French, Italian, German and Spanish and has a good knowledge of Finnish and Hindi.^{[citation needed]}