Leading Economist, Journalist & Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

Rupert Pennant-Rea is an economist with wide experience of journalism, public office and business. He is currently working in several different fields. If they have a common theme, it is the interaction between the commercial world and the political world: how this relationship varies from country to country, how it changes over time, and where it is going next. He has written several books on economics and is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy.

He is now Chairman of The Stationary Office and holds board positions of a diverse range of international companies, including non-executive Chairman of Caspian, an investment bank that was set up in 1995 to cover the emerging markets.

Besides he has been asked to be the only non-staff member on a small group reporting to the World Bank's President, James Wolfensohn, on the future of the Bank. The group will be concentrating on how the Bank works with governments, private enterprise and the financial markets. He is also involved in a World Bank study on China's next 20 years.

As well as the above he is chairman of a consortium that is working on a privatisation project in Britain. He is also a Director of Dewe Rogerson, one of the leading financial PR firms which specialises in privatisations around the world.

Other involvements include: Member of the Group of 30 (chaired by Paul Volcker), Director of B.A.T. Industries, Director of Gordon House Asset management (a fund-management firm specializing in Western Europe) and Director of Sherritt International (a Canadian mining company)

Rupert Pennant-Rea started with the Bank of England for 5 years in the Seventies, before moving to 'The Economist' where he spent fifteen years, six of them as Editor, before returning to The Bank of England as Deputy Governor.