Julian Le Grand

Sir Julian Ernest Michael Le Grand, FBAFRSA (born 29 May 1945)^[1] is a British academic specialising in public policy. He is the Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE) and was a senior policy advisor to former Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Le Grand is the author, co-author or editor of seventeen books and over ninety articles on economics, philosophy and public policy. One of his books, Motivation, Agency and Public Policy: Of Knights and Knaves, Pawns and Queens, was described by The Economist as "accessible – and profound" and by The Times as "one of the most important books on public policy in recent years".^[2] He was one of Prospect magazine's 100 top British public intellectuals,^[3] and one of the ESRC's ten Heroes of Dissemination.^[4]

He is one of the principal architects of the UK Government's current ‘quasi-market’ reforms introducing choice and competition into health care and education. In addition, he originated and developed several innovative ideas in social policy, including one that became the ‘baby bond’ or Child Trust Fund, the Partnership Scheme for funding long term care endorsed by the 2005 Wanless Report Securing Good Care for Older People, the Educational Premium for the less well off and for looked after children, and the Social Care Practice in the 2006 Department for Education and SkillsGreen Paper, Care Matters.

Le Grand was one of the signatories of a letter published in The Guardian on 15 April 2008, which criticised the UK Government's "retreat in the face of a rightwing challenge over inheritance tax". Le Grand and his co-authors argued that inheritance tax "is one of the few tools which directly reduces inherited inequalities."^[5]

En 2014 fue miembro de la Comisión sobre el Futuro de la Salud y la Asistencia Social en Inglaterra para el King's Fund , presidida por Kate Barker , que presentó su informe final en septiembre. Posteriormente, denunció la propuesta de aumentar las tarifas del NHS, que describió como una idea obsoleta . ^{[ 6 ]}

En 2006, Le Grand recibió un doctorado honoris causa (D.Litt.) por parte de la Universidad de Sussex .

En 2007, Le Grand fue nombrado miembro de la Royal Society of Arts . ^{[ 7 ]}

En 2012, Le Grand fue elegido miembro de la Academia Británica (FBA). ^{[ 8 ]}

En la lista de honores de Año Nuevo de 2015 , fue nombrado caballero "por sus servicios a las ciencias sociales y al servicio público". ^{[ 9 ] [ 10 ]}

Ha escrito extensamente, incluyendo:

• La economía de los problemas sociales , Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280559
• La otra mano invisible: Prestación de servicios públicos mediante la elección y la competencia , Princeton University Press, 2007
• Motivación, agencia y política pública: De caballeros y bribones, peones y reinas , Oxford University Press, 2003, 208 págs., ISBN 0-19-926699-9OCLC 52193481 – argumenta a favor de aumentar las opciones fiscales . 
• «Salud, valores y política social». En Ann Oakley y Jonathan Barker, Quejas privadas y salud pública , Policy Press, 2004.
• Mercados cuasi-sociales y política social (editado con Will Bartlett), Macmillan, 1993
• Socialismo de mercado (editado con Saul Estrin), Clarendon Press, 1989

• Expertos de la London School of Economics – Profesor Julian Le Grand
• / Financial Times