John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell
- John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell
John Leonard Eatwell, Baron Eatwell (2 February, 1945 – ) is an influential British economist and the current President of Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was also a student (1964-1967).
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar and returned to Queens' as a research fellow. Eatwell has held several positions within the University of Cambridge, including Professor of Financial Policy at the Judge Business School and University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics: he was a fellow of Trinity College from 1970 to 1996, when he was elected President of Queens'. With his other duties, Eatwell taught Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York city in the 1980s and 1990s. He is also a member of various important national bodies. He was chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, the then-Leader of the Labour Party, from 1985 to 1992 and is a Labour member of the House of Lords as Baron Eatwell of Stratton St Margaret in the County of Wiltshire.
Eatwell is the former chair of the British Library, and a director of the Royal Opera House.
In July 2006 Eatwell married Suzi Digby, the founder and Principal of The Voices Foundation, a national music education charity.
External links
* [http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/people/faculty/eatwellj.html Professor John Eatwell] more information
* [http://www.cerf.cam.ac.uk/staff/index.php?current=3&staff_id=5 Professor Lord Eatwell Director of CERF]
* [http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk Queens' College]
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