Richard Portes

Richard David Portes CBE is professor of Economics at London Business School.[2] He was President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, which he founded.[2] He also serves as Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.[2]

Richard Portes CBE
Born
Chicago, Illinois
NationalityUnited States of America,
United Kingdom[1]
CitizenshipUnited States of America,
United Kingdom[1]
FieldEconomics[1]
Alma mater
Awards
Information at IDEAS / RePEc
Websitefaculty.london.edu/rportes/
Notes
Richard Portes publications indexed by Google Scholar

He was a Rhodes Scholar and a Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.[1] He also taught at Princeton University, Harvard University (as a Guggenheim Fellow),[1] was the founder of the Economics Department at Birkbeck College (University of London) in 1972.[3] In 1999–2000, he was the Distinguished Global Visiting Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and in 2003–04 he was Joel Stern Visiting Professor of International Finance at Columbia Business School.

Professor Portes is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a Fellow of the British Academy. He was the longest serving Secretary-General of the Royal Economic Society (1992–2008) since John Maynard Keynes. He is Co-Chairman of the Board of Economic Policy. He is a member of the Group of Economic Policy Advisers to the President of the European Commission. He is the chair of the Steering Committee of the Euro50 Group, of the Bellagio Group on the International Economy, and of the Advisory Scientific Committee to the European Systemic Risk Board.[4]

Writings

Portes's current research interests include international finance, international macroeconomics, macroprudential regulation, European integration, and European bond markets.[4] He has written extensively on sovereign debt, European monetary and financial issues, international capital flows, centrally planned economies and transition, macroeconomic disequilibrium, and European integration.[5][6] His study (with Richard Baldwin and Joseph Francois) on the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union was widely cited in the public policy debate leading up to the 2004 Enlargement.[7][8] His work on collective action clauses in sovereign bond contracts, on the international role of the euro, on international financial stability and on European bond markets has been directed towards policy as well as academic publications.[9]

Awards

Richard Portes was created CBE in the Queen’s 2003 New Year Honours.[3]

Portes holds three honorary doctorates,[4] including one from Paris Dauphine University[10]

Notes
  1. "RICHARD PORTES". London Business School. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  2. "Richard Portes". Faculty Pages. London Business School. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  3. "CEPR founder Richard Portes awarded CBE for services to economics". Press. Centre for Economic Policy Research. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  4. "Richard Portes". London Business School. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  5. "Richard Portes: Citations and Publications". scholar.google.com. Google Scholar. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  6. "Richard Portes: Research Output". ideas.repec.org. IDEAS. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  7. "Eastern Promise". www.economist.com. The Economist, April 1997. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  8. Baldwin, R., J. Francois and R. Portes (1997). "The costs and benefits of eastern enlargement: the impact on the EU and central Europe". Economic Policy. 12 (24): 125–176. doi:10.1111/1468-0327.00018. S2CID 14414518. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  9. "Richard Portes at VoxEU". www.voxeu.org. CEPR. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  10. "CEPR President receives honorary degree". Centre for Economic Policy Research. Retrieved 28 September 2020.

Richard Portes publications indexed by Google Scholar

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