Sir Charles Richard Bean (born 16 September 1953) is a British economist and Professor of Economics at the
London School of Economics. He was previously
Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy at the
Bank of England
The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom and the model on which most modern central banks have been based. Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker, and still one of the bankers for the Government o ...
from 1 July 2008 until 30 June 2014. From 2000 to 2008, he served as Chief Economist at the Bank.
Bean attended
Brentwood School and
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
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, and was a contemporary of the comedian
Griff Rhys Jones
Griffith Rhys Jones (born 16 November 1953) is a Welsh comedian, writer, actor, and television presenter. He starred in a number of television series with his comedy partner, Mel Smith. Rhys Jones came to national attention in the 1980s for h ...
at both and the writer,
Douglas Adams
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, and the
Member of Parliament
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(MP)
Fabian Hamilton
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Educati ...
at Brentwood School. He gained his PhD at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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in 1981 with a thesis titled ''Essays in unemployment and economic activity'' under the supervision of
Robert Solow
Robert Merton Solow, GCIH (; born August 23, 1924) is an American economist whose work on the theory of economic growth culminated in the exogenous growth model named after him. He is currently Emeritus Institute Professor of Economics at the Ma ...
. In 1990 he was visiting Professor at
Stanford University
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in 1990, and then a lecturer at the
London School of Economics, becoming a professor in 1990 and head of the Economics Department in 1999.
He has published articles on European unemployment, the
Economic and Monetary Union
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, and on
macroeconomics
Macroeconomics (from the Greek prefix ''makro-'' meaning "large" + ''economics'') is a branch of economics dealing with performance, structure, behavior, and decision-making of an economy as a whole.
For example, using interest rates, taxes, an ...
generally. He was Managing Editor of the ''
Review of Economic Studies
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'' from 1986 to 1990. Bean has also served in a variety of public policy roles, such as consultant to
Her Majesty's Treasury
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and as special adviser to both the
Treasury Committee of the House of Commons and to the
Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. He was a special adviser to the
House of Lords
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enquiry into the
European Central Bank
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.
He was
knighted
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in the
2014 Birthday Honours
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for services to monetary policy and central banking. He is a fellow of the
European Economic Association
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.
References
External links
Bank of England biography
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1953 births
Living people
Academics of the London School of Economics
British economists
Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences alumni
Civil servants in HM Treasury
People educated at Brentwood School, Essex
Deputy Governors of the Bank of England
Knights Bachelor
Fellows of the European Economic Association