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A Conversation between Charles Goodhart and Mervyn King

Hosted by the Financial Markets Group (FMG)

Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building,

Speakers

Professor Charles Goodhart

Lord King

In this event to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Financial Markets Group Research Centre it's co-founders, Charles Goodhart and Mervyn King will discuss; the foundation and early years of the Financial Markets Group; the role and reputation of the FMG; trends in monetary and financial economics over the last 30 years; and future problems and developments for central bankers.

Charles Goodhart is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance with the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics, which he co-founded in 1987, he served as Deputy Director from 1987-2005.  Until his retirement in 2002, he had been the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at LSE since 1985.  Before then, he had worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary adviser, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980.  In 1997 he was appointed one of the outside independent members of the Bank of England's new Monetary Policy Committee until May 2000.

Mervyn King was Governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013, and is currently School Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Lord King was made a life peer in 2013, and appointed by the Queen a Knight of the Garter in 2014. From October 1984 he was Professor of Economics at the LSE where he co-founded the Financial Markets Group with Charles Goodhart.

The Financial Markets Group Research Centre (@FMG_LSE) was established in 1987 at the LSE. The FMG is a leading centre in Europe for policy research into financial markets. It is the focal point of the LSE's research communication with the business, policy making and international finance communities. The FMG works alongside the Department of Finance to understand problems in financial markets and in the decision-making processes of corporations, banks and regulators.

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