We are delighted that Professor Martin Weale will be our guest speaker on Tuesday 6 June at the offices of Standard Chartered Bank. The meeting is being chaired by Madhur Jha, Head of Thematic Research at Standard Chartered Bank.

Martin Weale CBE is Professor of Economics at King’s Business School. Martin graduated in 1977 in Economics from Clare College, Cambridge. On graduating he took up an Overseas Development Institute Fellowship at the National Statistics Office in Malawi. He returned to Cambridge in 1979 to work on economic modelling projects directed by Sir Richard Stone and Professor James Meade, before becoming an Assistant Lecturer in 1987 and subsequently a Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Politics. He was elected a Fellow of Clare College in 1981.

In 1986-7 Martin held a Houblon-Norman Fellowship at the Bank of England. He became Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research in 1995, holding the post until he joined the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee in 2010. He took up his Chair at King’s after completing a second three-year term as an external member of the Committee.

The event starts at 6.00pm and will be held at the offices of Standard Chartered Bank, 1 Basinghall Avenue, London, EC2V 5DD.

Registration is from 5.30pm onwards and the talk will be followed by networking drinks until 8.00pm

Pre-event registration by members is required.

We are very grateful to Standard Chartered Bank for kindly hosting this event.