Professor Sir John Vickers FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1998
- Subjects
- Economics
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History
Summary
Sir John Vickers has been Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, since October 2008. He studied at Oxford University, where, after a period working in the oil industry, he taught economics and was Drummond Professor of Political Economy from 1991 to 2008. He was Chief Economist at the Bank of England and a member of the Monetary Policy Committee 1998-2000; Director General/Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading 2000-05; President of the Royal Economic Society 2007-10; and Chairman of the Independent Commission on Banking 2010-11. His research interests concern questions about competition and regulation.
Current post
Warden, All Souls College, Oxford
Past appointments
All Souls College University of Oxford Warden
2008 -
University of Oxford Drummond Professor of Political Economy
1991 - 2008
Publications
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