Frank Cowell is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and co-director of the Public Economics Research Programme at the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines. Frank is an editor of Economica and his work has been published in leading journals such as Econometrica, the Review of Economic Studies, the American Economic Review, the Journal of Econometrics and the Journal of Public Economics. He is author of Cheating the Government (MIT Press), Economic Inequality and Income Distribution (Cambridge University Press), Measuring Inequality (Oxford University Press) and other books.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in July 2009.