Primary Job Title Board of Trustees Primary Organization 
IPPR
Location London, England, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
John Eatwell is director of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, and professor of Financial Policy in the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He was educated at Cambridge and Harvard and has taught economics and finance at Cambridge since 1970. He became president of Queens' College, Cambridge in 1997.
From 1985 to
1992 John Eatwell served as economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, the then leader of the Labour Party. In 1992 he entered the House of Lords, and from 1993 to 1997 was principal opposition spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs. In 1988, together with Clive Hollick, he set up IPPR. He was Chairman from 1997 to 2000, and remains a Trustee.
In 1997 he joined the board of the Securities and Futures Authority (SFA), Britain's securities markets regulator (up to the end of 2001), serving on the Enforcement Committee and the Capital Committee. In this position he developed his interest in financial regulation, particularly with respect to risk management and systemic risk. His publications in this field include Global Finance at Risk: The Case for International Regulation (New Press, New York, 2000), International Capital Markets, (Oxford University Press, New York, 2002), Global Governance of Financial Systems: The Legal and Economic Regulation of Systemic Risk (Oxford University Press, New York, 2005) and Financial Supervision and Risk Management in the EU (European Parliament, 2007). When the SFA ceased to operate he became a member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services Authority (until 2006).
John has been a non-executive director of Cambridge Econometrics (an economic research firm) and is currently a director of SAV Credit Limited (a credit card company). He is an adviser to the private equity firms Warburg Pincus & Company International Ltd and Palamon Capital Partners.
He was a non-executive director of Anglia Television Ltd from 1994 to 2001. From 1997 to 2000 he chaired the British Screen Group, and from 2000 to 2004 chaired the Commercial Radio Companies Association.He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden from 1998 to 2006, and a governor of the Royal Ballet School, 2003 to 2006. He was chairman of the British Library, 2001 to 2006. He is currently chairman of the Royal Opera House Pension Fund Trustees and chairman of the Classic FM Consumer Panel.
