David Graham Blanchflower is the Bruce V. Rauner '78 Professor of Economics at Dartmouth College. In 1973 he received his B.A. Soc. Sci. (Economics) at the University of Leicester, 1975 his Postgraduate Certificate in Education at the University of Birmingham, 1981 his M.Sc. (Econ) at the University of Wales, 1985 his Ph.D. at the University of London and 1996 his M.A. (Honorary) at Dartmouth College. He received an honorary D.Litt degree in 2007 from his alma mater, the University of Leicester and an honorary D.Sc. degree from Queen Mary, University of London in July 2009.

From 1984 until 1986 he worked as Research Officer at the Institute for Employment Research at University of Warwick and from 1986 until 1989 as a Lecturer at the Department of Economics at University of Surrey, UK.

His current research interests are: Trade Unions, Entrepreneurship, Wage Determination; Youth Unemployment and Labour Market Responses to the Financial Crisis.

He has published in numerous refereed journals and has been a member of the Editorial Board of Small Business Economics, of the Editorial Board of Scottish Journal of Political Economy and of the Editorial Board of Industrial & Labor Relations Review (1996-1999).

He is also a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and CESifo. He was a member of the Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank of England from 2006-2009.

David Blanchflower joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999. He acted as Program Director of the "Future of Labor" research program at IZA from 2009-2016.