Speaker:
Martin Weale is Professor at King's College, London. He joined King’s College in 2016 after completing two three-year terms as a member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England. He had previously been the Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research from 1995 to 2010. In 2011 Queen Mary, University of London appointed him a part-time Professor of Economics - a position he held until 2016.
Until 1995 he was a lecturer in Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Clare College (B.A. 1977, Sc.D. 2006). He was a member of the Statistics Commission from 2000 to 2008 and of the Board for Actuarial Standards from 2006 to 2011. Weale was appointed CBE for his services to Economics in 1999 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2001. City University awarded him an honorary doctorate in 2007.
