Biography
Julian Le Grand is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health Medicine, a Trustee of the Kings Fund, and a Founding Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. He has an honorary doctorate from the University of Sussex.
In 2003-5 he was seconded to No 10 Downing St as a senior policy adviser to the Prime Minister. As well as his position at No 10, he has acted as an adviser to the President of the European Commission, the World Bank, the World Health Organisation, the OECD, Her Majesty's Treasury and the UK Departments of Health and Work and Pensions. In 2007 he chaired the Working Group on Social Work Practices for the Department for Education and Science and from 2007 to 2009 he was the Chair of Health England: the national reference group on health and well-being. He has also been vice-chairman of a major teaching hospital, a commissioner on the Commission for Health Improvement, and a non-executive on several health authorities. He has served on many NHS working parties, on several think-tank commissions and on two grants boards of the Economic and Social Research Council.
Julian Le Grand is an economist by training with a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania where he was a Thouron Scholar. He is the author, co-author or editor of eighteen books and over one hundred articles on economics, philosophy and public policy. Two of his most recent books are, The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition. Princeton University Press (2007) and Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Oxford University Press (2006). In 2006 he was one of Prospect magazine's 100 top British public intellectuals.
For more details, see http://www.julianlegrand.net|
Selected Recent Publications
Books and Reports
Julian Le Grand, Carol Propper and Sarah Smith (2008) The Economics of Social Problems 4th edition, Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan.
Julian Le Grand (2007) The Other Invisible Hand: Delivering Public Services through Choice and Competition. Princeton University Press.
Julian Le Grand (2007) Consistent Care Matters: Exploring the Potential of Social Work Practices. London: Department for Education and Skills. |
Julian Le Grand (2006) Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Revised Paperback Edition.
Elias Mossialos and Julian Le Grand (eds.) (1999) Health Care and Cost Containment in the European Union. Aldershot, Ashgate.
Julian Le Grand, Nicholas Mays, and Jo Mulligan (1998) (eds) Learning from the Internal Market: a Review of the Evidence. London, Kings Fund.
Articles
Julian Le Grand (2010) 'Knights and knaves return: public service motivation and the delivery of public services' International Public Management Journal 13 (1) 56-71.
Zack Cooper, S. Jones, Alistair McGuire and Julian Le Grand (2009) 'Equity, waiting times and NHS reforms: retrospective study' British Medical Journal |(3 Sept). BMJ 2009;339;b3264, doi:10.1136/bmjb3264.
Jon Glasby, Simon Duffy and Julian Le Grand (2009) 'A healthy choice? Direct payments and healthcare in the English NHS' Policy and Politics 37(4), 481-497.
Tihana Matesovic, Martin Knapp and Julian Le Grand (2008) 'Motivations and commissioning: perceived and expressed motivations of care home providers' Social Policy and Administration, 42, 3, 228-247.
Ruth Robertson, Anna Dixon and Julian Le Grand (2008) 'Patient choice in general practice: the implications of patient satisfaction surveys' Journal of Health Services Research and Policy|, 13 (2) 67-72.
Julian Le Grand (2008) 'The giants of excess: a challenge to the nation's health' Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 171 (4) 843-856.
Anna Dixon, Julian Le Grand et al (2007) 'Is the British National Health Service equitable? The evidence on socioeconomic differences in utilization' Journal of Health Services Research and Policy|, 12 (2) 104-109.
Julian Le Grand and Anna Dixon (2006) 'Is greater patient choice consistent with equity? The case of the English NHS' Journal of Health Services Research and Policy |11 (3) 162-166.
Julian Le Grand and Tessa Crilly (2004) 'The motivation and behaviour of hospital trusts' Social Science and Medicine 58(10): 1809-1823.
Julian Le Grand (2002) 'The Labour Government and the National Health Service' Oxford Review of Economic Policy 18 (2), 137-153.
Julian Le Grand (2002) 'Further tales from the British National Health Service' Health Affairs, 21 (3) (May/June), 116-128.
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News
Professor Julian Le Grand appointed to develop mutuals in the public sector. Part of the remit is to support: 'front line staff who can see how to do things better'. 3rd February 2011 (eGov Monitor - Web)|
Professor Julian Le Grand appointed to form public sector 'John Lewises'.
One of the Coalition's most radical and controversial reforms is the conversion of public service bodies into business-like mutuals run along similar lines to John Lewis. 3rd February 2011 (The Daily Telegraph|)
Professor Julian Le Grand interviewed on reforms to the NHS 19th January 2011
(BBC News , BBC One)
Professor Julian Le Grand interviewed about plans for local councils to asssume responsibility for public health 30th November 2010 (BBC Radio 4)
Professor Julian Le Grand comments on the Government Spending Review 21st October 2010 (Financial Times European pg 2)
Professor Julian Le Grand on the implications for health in the CSR 20th October 2010 (Sky News)