Jagjit Singh Chadha ( Punjabi: ਜਗਜੀਤ ਸਿੰਘ ਚਢਾ, born 1 December 1966 in West Yorkshire is a British economist who is the Director of the

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. He is on secondment from his position as Professor and Chair in Money and Banking in the Department of Economics at the

University of Kent , motto_lang = , mottoeng = Literal translation: 'Whom to serve is to reign'(Book of Common Prayer translation: 'whose service is perfect freedom')Graham Martin, ''From Vision to Reality: the Making of the University of Kent at Canterbury'' ...

. He is Professor of Commerce at

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and was Chair of the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group (no
Money Macro and Finance Society

/ref> and was previously a specialist adviser to the

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.Jagjit Chadha's Gresham College homepage (accessed 30 January 2015)
/ref> He is also a part-time, Visiting Professor of Economics at

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. Chadha obtained his education from

The John Lyon School ("May the fortune of the house stand") , established = 1876 , closed = , type = Public School Independent Day School , religion = , president = , head_l ...

and then

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = ...

and the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. He then became an advisor and researcher at the

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working on monetary economics, in particular on the interaction of financial markets and monetary regimes. His earlier academic positions included: Lecturer in Macroeconomics in the Department of Economics at the

University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...

, Fellow and Economics Director of Studies at

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University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

, as well as a member of the Cambridge faculty Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis at the

University of St Andrews (Aien aristeuein) , motto_lang = grc , mottoeng = Ever to ExcelorEver to be the Best , established = , type = Public research university Ancient university , endowment ...

. After a period as the Chief Quantitative Economist at

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, Chadha was appointed Professor of Economics in Keynes College at the

in 2007, where he is Chair in Money and Banking. In August 2014, Chadha was appointed Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce at

for a period of three years, replacing

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. Chadha's first series of six free public lectures was on ''Money, Monetary Policy and Central Banks: The Meeting of Art and Science'' Chadha has acted as an academic adviser to

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, the

and other policy-making institutions outside the UK. He was formerly Chair of the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group (MMF). He is the current Editor of the series ''Modern Macroeconomic Policy-making'' published by

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. Chadha was appointed

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(OBE) in the

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for services to economics and economic policy.

Publications

* ''Money, Monetary Policy and Central Banks: The Meeting of Art and Science'' * ''The Euro in Danger, with Michael Dempster and Derry Pickford'' (Searching Finance, 2012) * ''Modern Macroeconomic Policy Making'' (Cambridge University Press, 2010) * ''Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis: Theory and Policy in General Equilibrium'' , co-edited with Sumru Altug and Charles Nolan (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

References

External links

All past Gresham College lectures on Gresham CollegeThe Economics of the Business Cycle by Jagjit ChadhaVideos interviews with Jagjit Chadha
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chadha, Jagjit 1966 births Living people Academics of the University of Kent Academics of the University of Southampton Academics of the University of St Andrews Alumni of the London School of Economics Alumni of University College London BNP Paribas people British Sikhs Fellows of Clare College, Cambridge People associated with the Bank of England Professors of Gresham College Officers of the Order of the British Empire