Paul Ormerod (born 1969) is a British economist who is currently researching complexity, complex systems, nonlinear feedback, the boom and bust cycle of business and economic competition. Ormerod uses a multidisciplinary approach, making use of biology, physics, mathematics, statistics and psychology as sources of results that can be applied to economics.
Ormerod completed his undergrad economic studies at Christ's College Cambridge and his postgrad studies at St Catherine's College Oxford, for which he was awarded a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in economics. Upon graduation he worked as a forecaster at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Later he founded several companies, first Henley Centre which was sold to a FTSE100 company and later Volterra Consulting, which he founded with Bridget Rosewell and till today remains the director of.
Paul is a Fellow of the British Academy for the Social Sciences and in the 2007/2008 academic year was a Distinguished Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Durham and presents regularly at a wide range of business and academic events.