Richard Layard is founder and former director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics - one of Europe’s leading economic research centres. He is the author of the ground-breaking Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (2005), which has been published in nineteen languages, and (with David Clarke) Thrive: The Power of Psychological Therapies (2014). He is co-editor (with John Helliwell and Jeffrey Sachs) of the annual World Happiness Report, and has been instrumental in the development of Improving Access to Psychological Therapies in the UK.