Jagjit CHADHA

Biographie

Professor Chadha is an expert on financial markets and monetary policy, as well as aspects of monetary and financial history. He has written widely on the design of monetary, fiscal and financial policies.  His main research interests are developing the links between finance and macroeconomics in general equilibrium models.  He has authored a book on Developments in Macro-Finance Yield Curve Modelling (Cambridge University Press) and a number of papers related to the impact of quantitative easing on financial market prices.

Professor Chadha currently serves as Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR).  Previously he was Professor of Economics at the University of Kent and also at Cambridge University. He was Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews and Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He has worked at the Bank of England on Monetary Policy and as Chief Quantitative Economist at BNP Paribas, and has served as Chair of the Money, Macro, Finance Study Group. He has acted as Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and academic adviser to both the Bank of England and HM Treasury, and to many central banks as well as the Bank for International Settlements. In the City of London, he was the Mercers’ Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College from 2014-2018.