John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell

The Lord Eatwell
Lord Eatwell, in academic dress, at the Senate House in June 2014
Born	John Leonard Eatwell (1945-02-02) 2 February 1945
Nationality	British
Spouse(s)	Suzi Digby (m. 2006)
Institution	University of Cambridge
Field	Economist
Alma mater	Queens' College, Cambridge Harvard University

John Leonard Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, (born 2 February 1945) is a British economist and the current President of Queens' College, Cambridge.

Education

Lord Eatwell was educated at Headlands Grammar School in Swindon in Wiltshire, followed by Queens' College at the University of Cambridge (1964–1967), where he gained a B.A., followed by studies at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, where he obtained a PhD. He subsequently returned to Queens' as a research fellow.

Career

Eatwell has held several positions within the University of Cambridge, including Professor of Financial Policy at the Judge Business School and University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics: he was a fellow of Trinity College from 1970 to 1996, when he was elected President of Queens'. With his other duties, Eatwell taught Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. He is also a member of various important national bodies. He was chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, the then-Leader of the Labour Party, from 1985 to 1992 and was created a Labour member of the House of Lords as Baron Eatwell, of Stratton St Margaret in the County of Wiltshire on 14 July 1992. In 2010, he was appointed a Labour Opposition Spokesman for the Treasury in the House of Lords by former leader Ed Miliband.

Eatwell is the former chair of the British Library, a director of the Royal Opera House and the economic advisor to the Chartered Management Institute.

In May 2014, Lord Eatwell was appointed Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Policy Research (IPR) at the University of Bath.

Personal life

In July 2006 Eatwell married Suzi Digby, founder and Principal of The Voices Foundation, a national music education charity.

Selected bibliography

Chapters in books

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Journal articles

• (Originally printed in Ekonomiska in 1973.)
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Papers

• Eatwell, John; Ellman, Michael; Karlsson, Mats; Nuti Mario; and Shapiro, Judith. (1997) Not 'just another accession': the political economy of EU enlargement to the East. London: Institute for Public Policy Research.
• Eatwell, John and Taylor, Lance (2000) Capital flows and the international financial architecture: a paper from the Project on Development, Trade, and International Finance. New York, NY: Council on Foreign Relations Press.
• Eatwell, John; Ellman, Michael; Karlsson, Mats; Nuti Mario; and Shapiro, Judith. (2000) Hard budgets and soft states: social policy choices in central and eastern Europe. London: Institute for Public Policy Research.
• Eatwell, John; Kern Alexander; Persaud, Avinash; and Reoch, Robert. (2007) Financial supervision and crisis management in the EU. Brussels: European Parliament Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.

External links

• Professor John Eatwell more information
• Professor Lord Eatwell Director of CERF
• Queens' College

References

Academic offices
Preceded by John Polkinghorne	President of Queens' College, Cambridge 1996–	Succeeded by Incumbent