Brigitte Granville | |
|---|---|
| Born | 3 October 1957 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Burgundy (M.Econ., 1979) Institute of Development Studies (MPhil, 1982) European University Institute (Ph.D, 1997) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Macroeconomics, monetary economics |
School or tradition | Classical economics |
| Institutions | Queen Mary University of London 2004– New Economic School 1995–97 |
| Awards | Chevalier des palmes académiques (Knight in the Order of Academic Palms) (2007) |
| Website | |
Brigitte Evelyne Granville (born 1957) is an economist with dual French and British nationality. She is professor of International Economics and Economic Policy and Head of the Department of Business Analytics and Applied Economics at Queen Mary Business School, Queen Mary University of London.
Her work centres on monetary economics, in particular inflation and the credibility of monetary policy, European monetary integration and the economic transformation of post-Soviet Russia. In the 1990s, she advised the Russian and Ukrainian governments and from 1999 to 2003 she headed the International Economics Programme at Chatham House. Her books include ''Remembering Inflation'' (2013) and ''What Ails France?'' (2021). She writes regularly for Project Syndicate, The Conversation and ''The International Economy'' and has contributed to the Financial Times, Le Monde and Bloomberg News.
Granville earned a Maitrise en Sciences Economiques diploma (M.Econ. equivalent) in 1979 at the University of Burgundy in Dijon, France and an MPhil in development studies from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex in 1982. She received her PhD from the European University Institute in 1997.
Granville was a summer intern at the World Bank in 1982 and a stagiaire at the European Economic Commission from 1987 to 1988.
From 1992 to 1994, she was as a member of the Monetary and Financial Unit advising the Russian Ministry of Finance. As an analyst, she worked with the Central Bank of Russia and the banking system to produce a weekly "Monetary Report" on the main macroeconomic indicators and provided analytical support to policymakers on the 1993 Monetary reform in Russia and on the future of the ruble after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
From 1994 to 1997, she was a senior expert at the Russian European Centre for Economic Policy, advising the Russian government and taught as an associate professor at the New Economic School in Moscow. She also advised the government of Ukraine in 1994 and 1995. Over the same period, she was a Senior Research Fellow in the International Economics Programme at Chatham House.
From September 1997 to June 1998, she was vice president for Russia at J. P. Morgan.
Granville worked in the Chatham House think tank, a non-profit, non-governmental organization based in London whose mission is to analyse and promote the understanding of major international issues and current affairs. She served as senior research fellow of the International Economics Programme from 1994 to 1997, and as head of the International Economics Programme from January 1999 to December 2003.
Granville joined Queen Mary University of London in 2004 and founded the Centre for Globalisation Research. From 2006, she led an Arts and Humanities Research Council project on the fair trade movement, which produced ''The Processes and Practices of Fair Trade'' (Routledge, 2013), co-edited with Janet Dine. Her monograph ''Remembering Inflation'' (Princeton University Press, 2013) examines earlier inflationary episodes and their lessons for monetary policy, with particular attention to fiscal and monetary interactions and central bank credibility.
In 2007, Granville was appointed a chevalier in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, a decoration awarded by the French government for services to education.
Granville is a trustee of Effective Intervention, a UK-registered non-governmental organization involved in research-focused projects on infant mortality and primary education in some of the poorest regions of India, Guinea-Bissau and Gambia.
