Andrew John Scott is a British economist, currently Professor of Economics at London Business School, and Principal Scientist (Economics) at Ellison Institute of Technology-Oxford. He is known for his work on longevity and macroeconomics. Previously he was a lecturer at Oxford University, a visiting professor at Harvard University and a researcher at the London School of Economics.
Scott was born in 1965 in Enfield, London and was educated at Firs Farm Primary School and Haberdashers' AskeâÂÂs, Elstree. He attended Trinity College, Oxford where he graduated with a first with prizes in Politics, Philosophy and Economics in 1987. He received a MSc in economics from the London School of Economics in 1990 and was elected to a Prize Fellowship to All Souls College, Oxford in 1990. He was elected in the same year as philosopher Robert Rowland Smith and historian Scott Mandelbrote. He received his D.Phil (Essays in Aggregate Consumption) from Oxford in 1994.
He worked briefly as an economist for Credit Suisse First Boston before holding research positions at London Business School and the London School of Economics. He then took up a lectureship at Oxford University, a visiting assistant professor at Harvard before joining London Business School. The first half of his academic career focused on business cycles, monetary and fiscal policy and debt management but since the popular success of his book The 100 Year Life, his research has focused on the economics of longevity and ageing. In 2024, he published The Longevity Imperative, which outlines the importance of adjusting to longer life expectancy and the need to create a longevity society rather than an ageing society.
Alongside his academic career Scott has been a non-executive director for the UKâÂÂs Financial Services Authority and an advisor on monetary and fiscal policy to the House of Commons, the Bank of England, and H.M.Treasury and on ageing and longevity to a range of governments, departments and organisations. In 2026, he was awarded a CBE for his service to economics, research and public discourse.