Richard Portes

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Richard Portes
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Citizenship United States
United Kingdom [1]
Academic background
Alma mater Yale University (BA)
Balliol College, Oxford (DPhil)
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Richard David Portes CBE is a professor of Economics and an Academic Director of the AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School. [2] [3] 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]

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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. [4] 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. [5]

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. [6]

Early life and education

Portes was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Herbert Portes and Abra Halperin Portes. [7] He entered Yale University in 1959 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1962. [8]

He then went to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, attending Balliol College, Oxford from 1962 to 1963 and Nuffield College, Oxford from 1963 to 1964. He then returned to Balliol, where he completed his D.Phil. in economics in 1969. He also received an M.A. (Oxon.) in 1965. [1]

Writings

Portes's research interests include international finance, international macroeconomics, macroprudential regulation, European integration, and European bond markets. [6] 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. [9] [10] 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. [11] [12] 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. [13]

Awards and honours

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  3. "Richard Portes". London Business School. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
  4. 1 2 "CEPR founder Richard Portes awarded CBE for services to economics". Press. Centre for Economic Policy Research . Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  5. "Richard Portes". International Growth Centre. Retrieved 4 February 2025.
  6. 1 2 "Richard Portes". London Business School. Retrieved 24 April 2019.
  7. "Richard Porter Will Marry Miss Barbara Diana Frank". Nytimes.com.
  8. "Yale '62 - Alumni Notes - June 2003". Yale62.org.
  9. "Richard Portes: Citations and Publications". scholar.google.com. Google Scholar. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  10. "Richard Portes: Research Output". ideas.repec.org. IDEAS. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  11. "Eastern Promise". The Economist. The Economist, April 1997. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  12. 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.
  13. "Richard Portes at VoxEU". www.voxeu.org. CEPR. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
  14. "Richard Portes CBE FBA". Rhodes Trust.
  15. "Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists". Gf.org.
  16. "Current Fellows". Econometric Society.
  17. 1 2 3 "CEPR President receives honorary degree | Centre for Economic Policy Research". CEPR.
  18. "New Year Honours: Order of the British Empire". The Independent. 31 December 2002.
  19. "Professor Richard Portes FBA". The British Academy.
  20. "Fellows". EEA.
  21. "Honorary Fellows". Balliol College.

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