RICHARD PORTES

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Richard Portes is Professor of Economics at London Business School (since 1995); President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (which he founded in 1983); and Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris (since 1978). He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and has also taught at Princeton, Harvard (as a Guggenheim Fellow), and Birkbeck College (University of London). In 1999-2000, he was the Distinguished Global Visiting Professor at the Haas Business School, University of California, Berkeley, and in 2003-04 he was Joel Stern Visiting Professor of International Finance at Columbia Business School.

Professor Portes is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the British Academy.  He is Secretary-General of the Royal Economic Society. He is Co-Chairman of the Board of Economic Policy. He is a member of the Group of Economic Policy Advisers to the President of the European Commission. He has written extensively on sovereign debt, European monetary and financial issues, international capital flows, centrally planned economies and transition, macroeconomic disequilibrium, and European integration. His work on collective action clauses in sovereign bond contracts,on the international role of the euro, and on European bond markets has been directed towards policy as well as academic publications.

Richard Portes was created CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours List 2003.