Education: 

Royal Grammar School, Newcastle on Tyne, 1951-1959
Oriel College, Oxford, BA in Modern History, 1959-1962
London School of Economics, MSc in Economics, 1966-1968

Employment: 

John Murray Publishing, 1962-1966
HM Treasury, cadet economist, 1966-1968
Economic Assistant, 1968-1970
Economic Adviser, 1970-1973
Dept. of Health and Social Security, Senior Economic Adviser 1973-1974
HM Treasury, Senior Economic Adviser, 1975-1978
Under-Secretary (Economics), 1978-1982
National Institute of Economic and Social Research, director, 1982-1995
Bath University, visiting professor, 1998-2001

Other Activities

Churches' Enquiry into Unemployment and the Future of Work, executive secretary 1995-1997
Diocese of Southwark, chair of Board of Finance, 2000-2007
Archbishops' Council, chair of Finance Committee, 2007-2013
Lay Reader, 1986- , Lay Canon of Southwark Cathedral, 2004-

Publications

'The Trade Cycle in Britain' , CUP 1986
'Macroeconomic Policy in Britain 1974-87' CUP 1991
''Monetary Regimes of the Twentieth Century', CUP 2001
'Economic Theory and Christian Belief' (joint with P, Sedgwick), Peter Lang, 2003