Mervyn King, Baron King of Lothbury
The Lord King of Lothbury | |
|---|---|
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Governor of the Bank of England | |
| In office 1 July 2003 – 1 July 2013 | |
| Appointed by | Gordon Brown |
| Preceded by | Edward George |
| Succeeded by | Mark Carney |
| Member of the House of Lords | |
| Life peerage 19 July 2013 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mervyn Allister King 30 March 1948 Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Spouse(s) |
Barbara Melander (m. 2007) |
| Education | King's College, Cambridge (MA) Harvard University (Scholar) St John's College, Cambridge (Fellow) |
Mervyn Allister King, Baron King of Lothbury, (born 30 March 1948) is a British economist and public servant who was governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013. He is an Emeritus Professor of the London School of Economics and chairman of the Philharmonia since 2020. He was president of Marylebone Cricket Club from 2024 to 2025.
He joined the Bank of England in 1990 as a non-executive director, and became the chief economist in 1991. In 1998, he was promoted deputy governor of the Bank and a member of the Group of Thirty.
King was appointed as Governor of the Bank of England in 2003. He ran the Bank during the 2008 financial crisis and the Great Recession. King retired from office as Governor in June 2013. He was created a life peer in July 2013 and entered the House of Lords as a crossbencher.
From 2014 until 2022 he was professor of economics and law, a joint chair at New York University's Stern School of Business and School of Law.
References
- ↑ "The Today Programme Lecture". Today. 2 May 2012. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
- ↑ www.lords.org
- ↑ "NYU Stern - Mervyn King - Alan Greenspan Professor of Economics". stern.nyu.edu. Archived from the original on 20 September 2017. Retrieved 2017-09-26.
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