Sigbert Prais - Biography

Professor Sigbert Jon Prais FBA (born 19 December 1928, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany) is an economist and has been the Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) since 1970.

Education

His family arrived in Britain in 1934 as Jewish refugees from the Nazis. He was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, the University of Birmingham (MCom) and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (PhD 1953; ScD 1974). He became a British citizen in 1946.

Career

• Lecturer, Department of Applied Economics, University of Cambridge, 1950–57
• Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Chicago, 1953–54
• Research officer, NIESR, 1953–59
• United Nations Technical Assistance Organisation, 1959–60
• International Monetary Fund, 1960–61
• Finance Director, Elbief Co., 1961–70
• Visiting Professor of Economics, City University, 1975–84.

Positions ans honours

• Member of Council, Royal Economic Society, 1979–83
• Member of Council, City University, 1990–94
• Fellow of the British Academy, 1985
• Hon. DLitt City University, 1989
• Hon. DSc University of Birmingham, 2006.

Publications

• Analysis of Family Budgets, 1955, 2nd edn 1971
• Evolution of Giant Firms in Britain, 1976, 2nd edn 1981
• Productivity and Industrial Structure, 1981
• Productivity, Education and Training, 1995
• From School to Productive Work in Britain and Switzerland, 1997
• Social Disparities and the Teaching of Literacy, 2001

• Debrett's People of Today
• Who's Who 2007