Richard Portes CBE FBA

Biography

Richard Portes, Professor of Economics at London Business School, is Founder and Honorary President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and Co-Founder of Economic Policy. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and of the British Academy. He is a member of the General Board of the European Systemic Risk Board, Chair of the ESRB’s Advisory Scientific Committee, and Co-Chair of the ESRB’s Joint Expert Group on Non-bank Financial Intermediation. He is a founder member of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy. He is an Academic Director of the AQR Asset Management Institute at LBS. Professor Portes was a Rhodes Scholar, then an Official Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford (of which he is now an Honorary Fellow). He holds three honorary doctorates. He has written extensively on globalisation, sovereign borrowing and debt, European monetary issues, European financial markets, macroprudential regulation, and international capital flows. Professor Portes was decorated CBE in the 2003 New Year’s Honours.