Gerard Patrick Lyons was born on 31 March 1961 and is a British economist.
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Gerard Lyons belongs to an immigrant Irish Catholic family from Kilburn, North West London.
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Gerard Lyons studied at the University of Liverpool followed by a Masters in Economics at the University of Warwick.
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Gerard Lyons started his career as an economist at Chase Manhattan Bank in the Europe Area Office from 1985 to 1986.
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On leaving Standard Chartered, The Times wrote that Gerard Lyons " become one of the most influential pundits on the global economy".
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Currently, Gerard Lyons is Chief Economic Strategist at Netwealth, an independent non-executive director at the Bank of China, and a Senior Fellow at the think tank Policy Exchange.
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Gerard Lyons has testified to United States Congress and Senate about the rise of State Capitalism and Sovereign Wealth Funds.
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Gerard Lyons sat on Councils of the World Economic Forum between 2009 and 2014.
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On 11 December 2012, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, announced that Gerard Lyons was to join his team as his Chief Economic Adviser.
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Gerard Lyons began the role a month later in January 2013 and left in April 2016, at the conclusion of the Mayor's term.
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Gerard Lyons was described to have been then-prime minister Liz Truss's "favourite economist", and provided external advisor during her leadership bid although he did not have contact with her once she became prime minister.
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Previously a vocal opponent of the UK joining the Exchange Rate Mechanism and Euro currency, Gerard Lyons is an advocate of "Clean Brexit", and co-founded Economists for Brexit to provide the economic case for leaving.