Assistant / Associate / Full Professors in Economics

About the role:

Imperial Business School is seeking qualified applicants for faculty positions in its Department of Economics & Public Policy at the rank of Assistant, Associate and Full Professor in Economics.

For Assistant Professor position, you should have the potential to publish innovative, rigorous, and relevant contributions in top academic journals and to develop into excellent teachers. For an Associate or Full Professor position, you should demonstrate considerable excellence in research, teaching and service.  You will be encouraged to proactively engage in research grant applications; Imperial’s strategy “Science for Humanity” provides significant opportunities for interdisciplinary research.

As with most business schools, most of the department’s teaching focuses on applied economics, management and analytics modules. The first students on our innovative undergraduate degree in Economics, Finance and Data Science finished their studies this summer; our MSc programmes include Economics and Strategy for Business and an interdisciplinary degree in Climate Change, Management and Finance. Our interdisciplinary MSc in AI, Economics and Policy, taught jointly with the Department of Computing, will admit its first students in September 2027.

Applications from women, BAME and other groups who are currently underrepresented in the School are especially welcome. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for neurodiversity and disability associated needs.

The initial interviews will be conducted virtually in December, and fly-outs will be in January/February.

What you would be doing:

You will contribute to Imperial’s mission as a leading research-intensive university, developing your own range of research and teaching on our degree programmes. You are encouraged to develop research collaborations within and outside Imperial, and we provide travel funding to facilitate this. You will share in the administrative tasks of running the department and the Business School, to an extent appropriate to your career stage.

What we are looking for:

• You will have a PhD in Economics or a related field, or (for an assistant professor) expect to have one before taking up the post
• You will be able to demonstrate capability for high-quality innovative research in your area, with a strong research agenda and pipeline. Applicants for associate or full professor should be developing or established international reputation for their research (commensurate with career stage).
• You will have experience (appropriate to your level) in teaching economics to university students.

Further Information

Please see our Further Particulars for more information about the College and the benefits available to staff.

These are full-time posts. Associate and Full Professors are offered permanent contracts. Assistant Professors will be offered a seven-year fixed term contract and will be expected to apply for promotion to Associate Professor during their sixth year. Those who are promoted to Associate Professor will receive a permanent contract.

Please review the Job Description and Application Instructions document and submit the following documents:

• Application form
• CV
• Cover letter that explains your reasons for applying to Imperial
• Research statement
• Teaching statement
• Evidence of teaching scores (where applicable)
• 3 research papers (one paper for current / recent PhD students)

Those applying for an assistant professor post should also ask three referees to email a reference letter to EPPrecruit@imperial.ac.uk by the closing deadline. 

Further details on the role, please contact: Professor Richard Green – r.green@imperial.ac.uk

Closing deadline is 03 November 2026, 23:59 hours (Midnight GMT)

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