John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell


John Leonard Eatwell, Baron Eatwell, is a British economist and the current President of Queens' College, Cambridge. A former senior advisor to the Labour Party, Lord Eatwell now sits in the House of Lords as a non-affiliated peer.

Education

Lord Eatwell was educated at Headlands Grammar School in Swindon in Wiltshire, followed by Queens' College, Cambridge, where he gained a B.A., followed by studies at Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar, where he obtained a PhD. He subsequently returned to Queens' as a research fellow.

Career

Eatwell has held several positions within the University of Cambridge, including Professor of Financial Policy at the Judge Business School and University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics: he was a fellow of Trinity College from 1970 to 1996, when he was elected President of Queens'. With his other duties, Eatwell taught Economics at the New School for Social Research in New York City in the 1980s and 1990s. He is also a member of various important national bodies.
He was chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, the then-Leader of the Labour Party, from 1985 to 1992 and was created a Labour member of the House of Lords as Baron Eatwell, of Stratton St Margaret in the County of Wiltshire on 14 July 1992. In 2010, he was appointed a Labour Opposition Spokesman for the Treasury in the House of Lords by former leader Ed Miliband. As of 27 March 2014, he now sits as a non-affiliated peer.
Eatwell is the former chair of the British Library, a director of the Royal Opera House and the economic advisor to the Chartered Management Institute.
In May 2014, Lord Eatwell was appointed Chair of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath.

Personal life

In July 2006 Eatwell married Suzi Digby, founder and Principal of The Voices Foundation, a national music education charity. Prior to this he was married to Hélène Seppain, with whom he has three children, the Hon. Nikolai Eatwell, the Hon Vladimir Eatwell, and the Hon. Tatyana Eatwell.

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