Charles Goodhart

Biography

Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance with the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics (LSE), having previously been its Deputy Director from 1987 to 2005. From 1985 until his retirement in 2002, he was the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the LSE. Before this, he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. In 1997 he was appointed one of the external members of the Bank of England’s new Monetary Policy Committee, a role he occupied until May 2000. In earlier years, he taught at Cambridge and the LSE.

Besides numerous articles, Charles Goodhart has written a couple of books on monetary history; a graduate monetary textbook, Money, Information and Uncertainty (2nd edition, 1989); two collections of papers on monetary policy, “Monetary Theory and Practice” (1984) and “The Central Bank and the Financial System” (1995); a number of books and articles on financial stability, on which subject he was Adviser to the Governor of the Bank of England from 2002 to 2004; and numerous other studies relating to financial markets and monetary policy and history. His latest books include The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: A History of the Early Years, 1974-1997 (2011) and The Regulatory Response to the Financial Crisis (2009).