MERVYN
ALLISTER KING
GOVERNOR, BANK OF ENGLAND
Mervyn King is
Governor of the Bank of England and is Chairman of the Monetary Policy
Committee. He was previously Deputy
Governor from 1998 to 2003, and Chief Economist and Executive Director
from 1991. Mervyn King was a
non-executive director of the Bank from 1990 to 1991.
Born in 1948,
Mervyn King studied at Kings College, Cambridge,
and Harvard (as a Kennedy Scholar) and taught at Cambridge
and Birmingham Universities
before spells as Visiting Professor at both Harvard University
and MIT. From October 1984 he was
Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics where he founded the
Financial Markets Group.
Mervyn King is a
Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of Kings and St Johns
Colleges, Cambridge
and holds honorary degrees from Birmingham,
City of London, Edinburgh,
London Guildhall, London School of Economics and Wolverhampton Universities. He is a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, is on the
Advisory Council of the London Symphony Orchestra, is Patron of Worcestershire
County Cricket Club and is a Trustee of the National Gallery.
April 2005