- Fellow type
- UK Emeritus Fellow
- Year elected
- 1987
- Sections
- Modern History from 1850
Barry Supple is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge. He was educated at Hackney Downs Grammar School, the London School of Economics, and the University of Cambridge. he held academic posts at the Harvard Business School (1955-60), McGill University (1960-62) and the Universities of Sussex (1962-78), Oxford (1978-81) and Cambridge (1981-93) He was elected to the Academy in 1987 and served as Foreign Secretary from 1995 to 1999. He was Director of the Leverhulme Trust (1993-2001), and Principal Consultant to the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund (2001-2007). He was Master of St Catharine's College Cambridge (1984-93). He was awarded a CBE in 1999. Research: early modern English commercial fluctuations, modern economic performance, economic policy, business history.
