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Professor Hall is Honorary Professor of Medicine in St Andrews and a Professor of Econometrics at the University of Leicester. He is also Visiting Professor at Pretoria University and formally held chairs at Imperial College and the London Business School. He is an advisor to the Bank of Greece.
Previously, he was a member of the executive Committee of UN DESA Project LINK, and has been a consultant to the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He was an economic advisor at the Bank of England and a visiting senior research fellow at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He has published over 300 journal articles and 12 books.
With Dr Bernadette O’Hare, Professor Hall co-founded the Government Revenue and Development Estimations (GRADE) project, the aim of which is to put development and human rights at the core of discussions about fiscal policies. By translating the effects of international fiscal policies on a government’s ability to raise and spend revenue into health and human rights outcomes for real people, the project empowers NGOs, policymakers, journalists, and researchers to advocate for a fairer world.