List of economists associated with Balliol College, Oxford explained

This is a list of economists, bankers, financiers and business people associated with Balliol College, Oxford.

Economists, Bankers, Financiers and Business people

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Field of workCommentsReferences
Ian Goldin2006globalisationFellow
Professor of Globalisation and Development

founding Director of the Oxford Martin School

Kitty Ussher1990public policyformer MP

Chief Economist, Institute of Directors

Group Head of Policy Development at Barclays

[1]
Anusha Chari1990international economicsprofessor of economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephanie Flanders1986public economics
Charles R. Conn1983innovation managementRhodes Scholar
Partner, McKinseys
CEO Rhodes House, CEO Oxford Sciences Innovation, Chair Patagonia Inc

published books on strategy problem solving

Jonathan Ostry1981international economicsProfessor of Economics, Georgetown University

son of economist Sylvia Ostry

Nicola Horlick1979investment managementDubbed "superwoman" for balancing finance career with bringing up six children
Gavyn Davies1972International Managing Director, Goldman SachsChair of the BBC
Martin Taylor1971business managementDirector, Courtauld Textiles
CEO WH Smith
CEO Barclays Bank
Chair RTL Group
Bank of England Financial Policy Committee
Secretary General, Bilderberg Group
Deepak Nayyar1967development economicsRhodes Scholar
Patrick Minford1961macroeconomicsBrexit advocate
Sir Adam Ridley1961financial marketsgovernment economic advisor,
director, Hambros Bank and of several insurance organisations
[2]
Andrew Graham1960Master of Balliol
Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister
founded the Oxford Internet Institute

son of Winston Graham of Poldark fame

Lester Thurow1960Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America
John Crow1958Governor of the Bank of Canada
Peter Donaldson1953economics educationAuthor and broadcaster
Michael Posner1950international tradeUK economic advisor
James Robertson1946Director, Inter-Bank Research Organisation

founder New Economics Forum

Grigor McClelland1946business managementretailer, first senior research fellow in Management Studies at Oxford
Founded Journal of Management Studies
first Director, Manchester Business School
Chair, Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
"changed the landscape of British business education" FT
Charles Kennedy1940endogenous growth theory
Professor, University of the West Indies
Director, Bank of Jamaica

"one of the finest economic theorists of his generation" A P Thirlwell

Alexandre Kafka1938international economicsExecutive Director, International Monetary Fund

second cousin of Franz Kafka

Walter Rostow1936economic growthEastman Visiting Professor 1970
US National Security Advisor
Sir Donald MacDougall1931Head of Government Economic Service[3]
Sir John Hicks1922general equilibrium theoryNobel Prize for Economics[4]
G. D. H. Cole1908co-operative movementadvocated participatory democracy sited at the workplace[5]
Sir Otto Niemeyer1902central bankingController of Finance, Treasury - advised returning to the Gold Standard 1925
Director, Bank of England and also the Bank for International Settlements
Chair, London School Economics
[6]
Oswald Toynbee Falk1898stockbrokerWorked closely with John Maynard Keynes at the Treasury and the Paris Peace Conference. Broker to Keynes who described Falk as "one of 'nature's economists"
Sir William Beveridge1897social policyfounder, welfare state in the United Kingdom
William George Stewart Adams1896social sciencecreated Oxford philosophy, politics and economics course
Sir William Ashley1878economic historyfirst Professor of Economic History in the English-speaking world:
Harvard 1892
[7] [8]
Francis Edgeworth1867utility theoryTCD,FBA
founding editor The Economic Journal
Professor KCL
Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Oxford
President, Royal Statistical Society
Charles Stanton Devas1867political economyCatholic apologist
Adam Smith1740a pioneer in the thinking of political economy and key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, regarded as "The Father of Economics" or "The Father of Capitalism"

The Wealth of Nations

[9]

Notes and References

  1. Balliol College Register (Seventh Edition) by Tom Bewley and John Jones. 2005.
  2. 'RIDLEY, Sir Adam (Nicholas)', in Who's Who 2014 (London: A. & C. Black, 2014)
  3. 93612. G. C.. Peden. MacDougall, Sir (George) Donald Alastair (1912–2004).
  4. Balliol College Register (Sixth Edition) by John Jones and Catherine Willbery 1993
  5. Cole, George Douglas Howard (1889–1959). Stears. Marc. Marc Stears. 2004. 10.1093/ref:odnb/32486. 25 October 2017.
  6. Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953
  7. Balliol College Register (Second Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1934
  8. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/30472 Sir William Ashley ONDB
  9. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/25767 Adam Smith ONDB