Ben Fine (born 1948) is Professor of Economics at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.
Fine graduated at the age of 20, and then was recruited by Sir James Mirrlees, completing an economics degree.
He is on the Economists' Oversight Group of the Citizens' Economic Council of the Royal Society of Arts, Commerce and Manufacturing (RSA).
[3] Latterly he turned to understanding labour economics and inequalities in South Africa's extractives sector, based on some earlier work on the British coal industry, which was in decline.
He has advised UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNDP, UNRISD, and Oxfam and served as an expert advisor on President Nelson Mandela's 1995-1996 South African Labour Market Commission.