List of economists associated with Balliol College, Oxford

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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Ian Goldin 2006 globalisation Fellow
Professor of Globalisation and Development

founding Director of the Oxford Martin School

Kitty Ussher 1990 public policy former MP

Chief Economist, Institute of Directors

Group Head of Policy Development at Barclays

[1]: 554 
Anusha Chari 1990 international economics professor of economics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [1]: 90 
Stephanie Flanders 1986 public economics [1]: 169 
Charles R. Conn 1983 innovation management Rhodes Scholar
Partner, McKinseys
CEO Rhodes House, CEO Oxford Sciences Innovation, Chair Patagonia Inc

published books on strategy problem solving

[1]: 103 
Jonathan Ostry 1981 international economics Professor of Economics, Georgetown University

son of economist Sylvia Ostry

[1]: 413 
Nicola Horlick 1979 investment management Dubbed "superwoman" for balancing finance career with bringing up six children [1]: 254 
Gavyn Davies 1972 investment banking International Managing Director, Goldman SachsChair of the BBC [1]: 124 
Martin Taylor 1971 business management Director, Courtauld Textiles
CEO WH Smith
CEO Barclays Bank
Chair RTL Group
Bank of England Financial Policy Committee
Secretary General, Bilderberg Group
[1]: 534 
Deepak Nayyar 1967 development economics Rhodes Scholar [1]: 396 
Patrick Minford 1961 macroeconomics Brexit advocate [1]: 377 
Sir Adam Ridley 1961 financial markets government economic advisor,
director, Hambros Bank and of several insurance organisations
[1]: 458 [2]
Andrew Graham 1960 political economics Master of Balliol
Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister
founded the Oxford Internet Institute

son of Winston Graham of Poldark fame

[1]: 203 
Lester Thurow 1960 political economics Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe and America [1]: 543 
John Crow 1958 central banking Governor of the Bank of Canada [1]: 116 
Peter Donaldson 1953 economics education Author and broadcaster [1]: 139 
Michael Posner 1950 international trade UK economic advisor [1]: 436 
James Robertson 1946 central banking Director, Inter-Bank Research Organisation

founder New Economics Forum

[1]: 462 
Grigor McClelland 1946 business management retailer, 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
[1]: 294 
Charles Kennedy 1940 endogenous growth theory
Professor, University of the West Indies
Director, Bank of Jamaica

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

[1]: 294 
Alexandre Kafka 1938 international economics Executive Director, International Monetary Fund

second cousin of Franz Kafka

[1]: 286 
Walter Rostow 1936 economic growth Eastman Visiting Professor 1970
US National Security Advisor
[1]: 468 
Sir Donald MacDougall 1931 public policy Head of Government Economic Service [1]: 346 [3]
Sir John Hicks 1922 general equilibrium theory Nobel Prize for Economics [4]: 5 
G. D. H. Cole 1908 co-operative movement advocated participatory democracy sited at the workplace [5]
Sir Otto Niemeyer 1902 central banking Controller 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]: 84 
Oswald Toynbee Falk 1898 stockbroker Worked 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"

[6]: 51 

Sir William Beveridge 1897 social policy founder, welfare state in the United Kingdom [6]: 57 
William George Stewart Adams 1896 social science created Oxford philosophy, politics and economics course [6]: 47 
Sir William Ashley 1878 economic history first Professor of Economic History in the English-speaking world:
Harvard 1892
[7]: 109  [8]
Francis Edgeworth 1867 utility theory TCD,FBA
founding editor The Economic Journal
Professor KCL
Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Oxford
President, Royal Statistical Society
[7]: 53 
Charles Stanton Devas 1867 political economy Catholic apologist [7]: 53 
Adam Smith 1740 political economy a 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

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v 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. ^ Peden, G. C. "MacDougall, Sir (George) Donald Alastair (1912–2004)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/93612. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ Balliol College Register (Sixth Edition) by John Jones and Catherine Willbery 1993
  5. ^ Stears, Marc (2004). "Cole, George Douglas Howard (1889–1959)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32486. Retrieved 25 October 2017. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ a b c d Balliol College Register (Third Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1953
  7. ^ a b c Balliol College Register (Second Edition) by Ivo Elliott 1934
  8. ^ Sir William Ashley ONDB
  9. ^ Adam Smith ONDB