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Professor Mary S. Morgan is Albert O. Hirschman Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics at LSE and the University of Amsterdam, Professor Morgan also holds a visiting fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Morgan was educated at LSE and taught at Duke University and the University of York before returning to her alma mater. Her best-known research addresses the practical side of how economists do economics: how do models, measurements, observation, experiments, etc. actually work, and how these have changed over the last century. Her most recent books include The World in the Model (Cambridge 2012) and How Well Do Facts Travel? (Cambridge 2011). Professor Morgan has received many research grants, honours and awards, and has been Vice-President of the British Academy and an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is currently working on projects on poverty measurement, on how economics gets used to change things in the world, and on the ways that narrative forms of explanation are used in the sciences.