Centre for Economic Policy Research
European economic research network based in London
The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is an independent, non-partisan, pan-European non-profit organisation. According to the Charity Commission for England and Wales, "CEPR's mission is to promote world-class economic research and deliver the policy-relevant results to decision-makers. It provides common services for its network of researchers and for users of its research, and obtains funding for the activities it develops, executing projects once funding is obtained, and reporting to donors on activities undertaken".
History
CEPR was founded in 1983 by Richard Portes with the aim of enhancing the quality of economic policy-making in Europe and beyond. Richard Baldwin, currently Professor of International Economics at IMD Business School, served as CEPR's President from 2014 to 2018 and was also the founding Editor-in-Chief of VoxEU, a role he held until December 2018.
Since 2018, CEPR has been led by Beatrice Weder di Mauro, who serves as its President.
In October 2021, CEPR opened a new office in Paris, which was intended to become its head office. The Paris office is hosted by Sciences Po, one of CEPR's Paris Founding Partners, alongside the AXA, the Bank of France, the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, the French Ministry of Economy and Finance, and the Île-de-France Region. Weder di Mauro commented that CEPR "is an organisation with a strong European identity and, with Brexit, we felt the need to set ourselves up on the continent."
Activity
CEPR appoints Research Fellows and Affiliates who remain based at their home institutions, including universities, research institutes, central bank research departments, and international organisations. As of 2025, CEPR's network comprised more than 2,000 economists from over 330 institutions across 30 countries.
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