Graham Loomes (born 5 August 1950) is a Britisheconomist and academic, specialising inbehavioural economics. Since 2009, he has been Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at theUniversity of Warwick. He previously worked at theUniversity of Newcastle, theUniversity of York and theUniversity of East Anglia.

Loomes was born on 5 August 1950 to Frederick and Gladys Loomes.^[1] He was educated atChrist's Hospital, aprivate school inHorsham, West Sussex, and atWestminster City School, then an all-boysgrammar school inWestminster, London.^[2] He studiedeconomics at theUniversity of Essex, and graduated with aBachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1970.^[2] After a period as a teacher, he undertookpostgraduate studies in economics atBirkbeck College,University of London and graduated with aMaster of Science (MSc) degree in 1978.^[1][3]

Loomes began his academic career as ateacher rather than alecturer. Having graduated from university in 1970, he became a school teacher. He left this career in 1977 to return to university and study for amaster's degree.^[1]

In 1978, after completing his master's degree, he joined theUniversity of Newcastle as aresearch officer in its Department of Economics. He then moved to the Health Care Research Unit, where he was a lecturer. From 1984 to 1988, he was asenior lecturer and director of thegraduate program inhealth economics at theUniversity of York. From 1988 to 1995, he was Co-Director of the Centre for Experimental Economics. In 1991, he was appointedProfessor of Economics.^[1]

From 1999 to 2000, he was both Co-Director of the Centre for Experimental Economics at York and Co-Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Safety Policy and Attitudes to Risk at the University of Newcastle. From 2001 to 2009, he was Professor ofEconomic Behaviour andDecision Theory at theUniversity of East Anglia.^[1] In 2009, he joined theUniversity of Warwick as Professor of Economics in its Economics Department.^[1][3] In 2011, he was also appointed Professor of Behavioural Science atWarwick Business School.^[4]

Loomes has three children; one son and two daughters.^[2]

In 2008, Loomes was awarded anEconomic and Social Research Council Professorial Fellowship.^[5][6] In 2010, he was elected aFellow of the British Academy (FBA).^[7]

• Weber, Elke U.;Baron, Jonathan; Loomes, Graham, eds. (2001).Conflict and tradeoffs in decision making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0521772389.
• Bateman, Ian J.;Carson, Richard T.; Day, Brett;Hanemann, Michael; Hett, Tannis; Hanley, Nick; Jones-Lee, Michael; Loomes, Graham;Mourato, Susana; Ozdemiroglu, Ece;Pearce, David W.;Sugden, Robert; Swanson, John (2002).Economic valuation with stated preference techniques: a manual. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.ISBN 978-1840649192.
• Bardsley, Nicholas; Cubitt, Robin; Loomes, Graham; Moffatt, Peter; Starmer, Chris;Sugden, Robert (2009).Experimental economics: rethinking the rules. Princeton: Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-0691124797.

• 1950 births
• Living people
• British economists
• Behavioral economists
• Fellows of the British Academy
• People educated at Christ's Hospital
• People educated at Westminster City School
• Alumni of the University of Essex
• Alumni of Birkbeck, University of London
• Schoolteachers from London
• Academics of Newcastle University
• Economists of the University of York
• Academics of the University of East Anglia
• Academics of the University of Warwick

• Articles with short description
• Short description matches Wikidata
• Use dmy dates from May 2017
• Use British English from May 2017
• All Wikipedia articles written in British English
• Articles with hCards
• Pages using infobox person with deprecated parameters