Michael Posner (economist)

Michael Vivian Posner (August 25, 1931 - February 14, 2006) was a University of Cambridge economics lecturer turned government adviser who later worked to safeguard social science research in the United Kingdom. Posner was born to Jack and Lena Posner. His father, originally a cabinet-maker, had immigrated from Russia to escape pogroms against the Jewish community. Posner’s maternal grandparents had also fled European persecution. He grew up in Ilford. After World War II the family settled in Croydon, where Posner attended Whitgift School and Balliol College.

In 1953, Posner married Rebecca Reynolds. Together they had two children; a son and a daughter.