Martin Browing is currently Professor of Economics at Oxford University, a Fellow of Nuffield College and Director of the Centre for Applied Microeconometrics in Copenhagen. He is also a Fellow and European Council Member of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the British Academy. His primary research interests are in applied microeconometrics with a particular emphasis on individual and household behaviour and accounting for heterogeneity.

Browning received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from LSE in 1979 and 1981, respectively, and his Ph.D. from Tilburg University in 1993.