John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics and a digital fellow at the Initiative for the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Until 2020 he was Gordon Billard Professor MIT Economics Department and Sloan Management School. He has published over a hundred papers on many areas in economics with a particular focus on firm performance and the causes and consequences of innovation. He holds a B.A. in economics and social and political sciences from Queens College, University of Cambridge, an M.Sc. in industrial relations from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. in economics from the London School of Economics.