Professor Sir David F. Hendry's research vision has been to improve empirical evidence by better econometric tools, methods and data, implemented in widely available computer software and applied to important issues in economics and climate change. These powerful econometric modelling and forecasting tools for rapidly changing processes have proved invaluable to forecast the evolution of the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent upsurge in UK inflation as well as to model climate change,

He was previously Professor of Economics at Oxford (1982-2018), Professor of Econometrics at LSE and a Leverhulme Personal Research Professor of Economics, Oxford (1995-2000).

Professor Sir David was Knighted in 2009; is an Honorary Vice-President and past President of the Royal Economic Society; Fellow of the British Academy, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Econometric Society, Academy of Social Sciences, Econometric Reviews and Journal of Econometrics; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Economic Association and American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Honorary Fellow, International Institute of Forecasters and Founding Fellow, International Association for Applied Econometrics.

He has received eight Honorary Doctorates, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and the Guy Medal in Bronze from the Royal Statistical Society. The ISI lists him as one of the world’s 200 most cited economists, he is a Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate, and has published more than 200 papers and 25 books on econometric methods, theory, modelling and history; computing; empirical economics; and forecasting.