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Lord Eatwell

Professor of Financial Policy
Director of the Centre for Financial Analysis and Policy (CFAP)
President of Queens' College

BA (Univ. of Cambridge), AM, PhD (Harvard Univ.)

Professional Experience

From 1985 to 1992 John Eatwell served as economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labour Party, and was responsible for much of the work that led to a substantial re-alignment of the Labour Party's economic policies. In 1992 he entered the House of Lords, and from 1993 to 1997 was Principal Opposition Spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs. In 2009 he became a member of the House of Lords' Economic Affairs Committee.

In 1988, together with others, John Eatwell set up the Institute for Public Policy Research, one of Britain's leading policy think-tanks. He remains a trustee of the Institute. From 1997 to 2002 he sat on the board of the Securities and Futures Authority, Britain's securities markets regulator, where he developed his interest in securities regulation. He was a member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services Authority from 2001 until 2006.

Currently, John Eatwell is an adviser to E.M. Warburg Pincus & Co. International Ltd, and to Palamon Capital Partners, LLP. He is also Chief Economic Adviser to the Chartered Management Institute. Lord Eatwell is Trustee at the Institute for Public Policy Research, Non-Executive Director for SAV Credit Ltd, Chairman of the Royal Opera House Pension Fund and Chairman of the Consumer Panel, Classic fm.

Previous Appointments

Having taught economics at Cambridge since 1970, John Eatwell is currently Director of CERF and CFAP, Professor in Financial Policy, and President of Queens' College. From 1980 to 1996 he was also a Professor in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, New York. He has been a Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York, the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and the University of Amsterdam. Lord Eatwell is also an elected foreign member of the Italian Academy of Sciences.

Research Interests

European integration and problems of unemployment; disguised unemployment, the definitions of competition and equilibrium in intertemporal general equilibrium models.

John Eatwell is a member of the Finance & Accounting research group and the Finance & Accounting teaching group.

Selected Publications

Eatwell, J. and Taylor, L. (2000) Global finance at risk: the case for international regulation. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Eatwell, J. and Taylor, L. (eds.) (2002) International capital markets: systems in transition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Eatwell, J. (2004) "Useful bubbles." Contributions to Political Economy, 23(1): 35-47

Alexander, K., Dhumale, R. and Eatwell, J. (2005) Global governance of financial systems: the international regulation of systemic risk. New York: Oxford University Press.

Alexander, K., Eatwell, J., Persaud, A. and Reoch, R. (2007) Financial supervision and crisis management in the EU. Brussels: European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

Eatwell, J. (2009) "Practical proposals for regulatory reform." In: Chatham House and Atlantic Council of the United States (eds.) (2009) New ideas for the London Summit: recommendations to the G20 leaders. London: Royal Institute of International Affairs, pp.11-14

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