Geoffrey L Bell, who was born in 1939, is an economist, banker, and Executive Secretary of the Washington-based

Group of Thirty The Group of Thirty, often abbreviated to G30, is an international body of financiers and academics which aims to deepen understanding of economic and financial issues and to examine consequences of decisions made in the public and private sec ...

, a council of private and central bankers. Born in

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, he was educated at the

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, before working at

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, and later returning to the LSE to lecture on monetary economics in 1964. Between 1966 and 1969, he served as economic advisor to the British Embassy in Washington, then joined the

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Bank, as assistant to the Chairman, Gordon Richardson, later Bank of England Governor. He was chairman of the bank Guinness Mahon Holdings between 1987 and 1993. In 1978 he founded the G30 advisory group, after an invitation from representatives of the Rockefeller Foundation, and today remains that group's executive secretary. In 1982 he formed his own consulting company, '' Geoffrey Bell and Company'', which advises central banks and governments on financial management issues. His clients included the Central Bank of

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, for which he was financial adviser for over twenty-five years.

Author

*''The Euro-Dollar Market and the International Financial System'', MacMillan, 1973,

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