Peter J N Sinclair

Peter Sinclair is a British economist. He is Professor in Economics at the University of Birmingham. Previously, he was fellow and tutor at Brasenose College, Oxford.

Professor Sinclair has published widely on a range of economic subjects, including the optimal rate of inflation, central bank independence, the costs and benefits of monetary union, and international trade policy.

Professor Sinclair has written for the Bank of England quarterly bulletin, often providing an academic's perspective on contemporary monetary issues.

He is married to economist Shelagh Heffernan.

Peter Sinclair grew up in London and Norfolk. His first job, before university, was in the export department of Linde AG in Germany. This sharpened his lifelong interest in international economics. He gained his BA and doctorate from the University of Oxford. He taught there for twenty four years, mainly in economic theory, money and international economics, as fellow and tutor in economics at Brasenose College. Since 1994 he has been Professor of Economics at the University of Birmingham.

He is the author of numerous articles and books on economics, one written with his wife, Shelagh Heffernan, who is Professor of Banking at the City University, London. His main research interests include inflation, unemployment and tax questions, often in the open economy setting. He has served as consultant to the Financial Services Authority, the Treasury and the U.S. Department of Labor. A former visiting professor at the University of British Columbia and Queen's University in Canada, he has also lectured in China, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lesotho, Poland, Russia and the U.S. He is currently chairman of the Royal Economic Society Easter School, and the International Economics Study Group. Non-work interests include architecture, history and languages.