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Summary

Professor Ray Barrell, born 25th May 1950, Retired. Currently Honorary and Emeritus Professor of Economics and Finance, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½University, Honorary Fellow, National Institute of Economics and Social Research, London.  Formerly Professor of Economics, Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½University, from 1st September 2011 to 30th June 2015.  Head of the Department of Economics and Finance, Brunel, September 2012 to July 2014.  Formerly Acting Director (2010-11),  Director of Macroeconomics (2002-2011), Senior Research Fellow (from 1990) at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, London.  He was a university lecturer in economics from 1976 to 1984, teaching at Sussex, Southampton, Stirling and Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½and specialising in monetary economics and econometrics.  He then moved to be an Economic Advisor at HM Treasury from 1984 to 1987 before moving to NIESR in 1988.  He had a part-time chair at the European University Institute, Florence during 1998-1999.  He was a visiting professor at Â鶹¹û¶³´«Ã½University from 2006, and at Imperial College, London from 1996 to 2004. Between 1981 and 2021 he published around 100 papers in academic journals and books, as well as a significant amount of policy related research and commentary at NIESR. Research interests: macroeconomics, growth, foreign direct investment, financial regulation and financial markets. 

Education

B.Sc (Econ), 1971, M.Sc. in Economics (Distinction), 1973  LSE

Career History

University Teacher 1975-1984 and 2011-2015, Civil Servant 1984-1987, Research Team Leader 1988-2011