People - The Centre for Global Studies

Directors:

Lord Desai

J. H. McFadden

Lord Skidelsky (Chairman)

Secretariat:

Pavel Erochkine
Chelsea Renton

Visitors: 39,023

Robert Skidelsky

Robert Skidelsky is Chairman of the Centre for Global Studies

Robert Skidelsky was born in 1939 in Harbin, China. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, the author of The World After Communism (1995) and the internationally acclaimed biographer of the economist John Maynard Keynes. His biography of Keynes won five prizes including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council of Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. Lord Skidelsky was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.

He was appointed to the House of Lords in 1991 and served as Chief Opposition Spokesman on Treasury Affairs (1998-1999). From 1991 to 2001 he was Chairman of the Social Market Foundation. Robert Skidelsky is also a non-executive director of Janus Capital Inc. A Russian speaker, he is a non-executive director of Sistema, chairman of LabRus Investment Club, founder and executive secretary the UK-Russia roundtable and a director of the Moscow School of Political Studies. He is also a Trustee of the Manhattan Institute. He has been Chairman of the Centre for Global Studies since 2002.

Meghnad Desai

Meghnad Desai is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the LSE. . From 1990-1995 he was Director of LSE's Development Studies Institute and has been at the LSE for over 30 years. In 1991, Meghnad Desai was created Lord Desai of St Clement Danes. His lates book is Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death of Statist Socialism. He is founder of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance. Lord Desai has been a director of the Centre for Global Studies since 2002.