Charles Goodhart, CBE, FBA, is an emeritus professor of banking and finance with the Financial Markets Group at the London School of Economics, where he had served as deputy director and was the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance. Previously, he worked at the Bank of England for 17 years as a monetary adviser, becoming a chief adviser in 1980. In 1997, he was appointed as one of the outside, independent members of the Bank of England’s new Monetary Policy Committee. Earlier he taught at Cambridge University. Goodhart has written several books, including Money, Information and Uncertainty (2nd ed., 1989), Monetary Theory and Practice (1984), and The Central Bank and the Financial System (1995). He has also published numerous other studies relating to financial markets, monetary policy, and monetary history. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, and received a PhD in economics from Harvard.
