It added the CEP had a significant impact on government policy in the UK and abroad and had become Europe’s leading body for the study of globalisation and international trade.

[17] Its work is supervised by a policy committee, which comprises 11 members drawn from business, academia and government and is chaired by Nicholas Macpherson (former Permanent Secretary to the Treasury).

[28] Research from the centre has also fed into the UK government's green book supplementary guidance,[29] which outlines how wellbeing evidence can inform policymaking.

[33] The original WMS was an interview-based survey tool with trained interviewers engaging a middle manager in a semi-structured conversation about day-to-day practices at their organisation.

Tony Venables, a former director of CEP’s globalisation programme, worked with Paul Krugman to develop insights on the role of transport costs in changing regional economic outcomes.

[43] Recently, research led by Stephen Gibbons and Henry Overman has contributed to an understanding of the causes of spatial disparities, in particular, the role of individual’s skills and agglomeration effects.

[45] Work on the economic effects of Brexit, predicting that creating frictions to trade would lead to a drop in GDP,[46] fed into the Office for Budget Responsibility forecasts.

Speakers have included Angus Deaton, Paul Krugman, Nicholas Stern, Raj Chetty, Jeffrey Sachs, Raghuram Rajan and Mariana Mazzucato.