Nationality British Name Jagjit Chadha | Fields Macroeconomics | |
Institutions University of Kent
Gresham College Books Macroeconomic Policy Making: Interest Rates, Prices and Liquidity, The Euro in Danger Institution University of Kent, Gresham College | ||
The new art of central banking professor jagjit chadha
Jagjit Singh Chadha (born 1 December 1966) is an English economist who is Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
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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. He is Professor of Commerce at Gresham College and Chair of the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group and a specialist adviser to the Treasury Select Committee. He is also a part-time, Visiting Professor of Economics at Cambridge University.
Chadha obtained his education from University College London and the London School of Economics. He then became an advisor and researcher at the Bank of England 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, Fellow and Economics Director of Studies at Clare College, University of Cambridge, 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.
After a period as the Chief Quantitative Economist at BNP Paribas, Chadha was appointed Professor of Economics in Keynes College at the University of Kent in 2007, where he is Chair in Money and Banking.
In August 2014, Chadha was appointed Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College for a period of three years, replacing Douglas McWilliams. 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 HM Treasury, the Treasury Select Committee and other policy-making institutions outside the UK. He is currently Chair of the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group (MMF). He is the current Editor of the series Modern Macroeconomic Policy-making published by Cambridge University Press.