John Vickers
Sir John Vickers is a British economist and the Warden of All Souls College, Oxford.Education
Vickers studied at Eastbourne Grammar School and Oriel College, Oxford. Eventually, he graduated with a DPhil from the University of Oxford.Career
After starting a profession in the oil industry, Vickers left and began teaching economics at Oxford University. From 1991 to 2008, Vickers was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy. Since 2008, Sir John Vickers was granted as Warden of All Souls College, Oxford. His visiting academic posts have included the London Business School, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. From 2003 until 2007, Vickers was President of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and then became President for the Royal Economic Society from 2007 to 2010.
In 1998, Vickers became Chief Economist at the Bank of England for two years. He was also notably a member of the Monetary Policy Committee. From 2000 to 2005, he became the Chairman of the Office of Fair Trading.
In June 2010, Vickers became Chair of the Independent Commission on Banking founded in the United Kingdom. The ICB's task is to consider both structural and non-structural reforms to the UK banking sector to promote financial stability and competition. The commission made its final recommendations to the UK government in September 2011, namely the introduction of the ring fencing of retail from investment banking in order to protect against financial riskiness.
In Autumn 2011, Vickers returned to Oxford to teach the first-year undergraduate Introductory Macroeconomics course.Research and publications
John Vickers has written a vast array of economic topics. His current economic research focuses on competition and regulation.Honours
He was knighted in 2005.
In 2012, he was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy.
