10 Facts About John Vickers

Sir John Stuart Vickers was born on 7 July 1958 and is a British economist and the Warden of All Souls College, Oxford.

John Vickers graduated with a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

From 1991 to 2008, John Vickers was the Drummond Professor of Political Economy.

In 2008, Sir John Vickers was elected as Warden of All Souls College, Oxford.

John Vickers's visiting academic posts have included the London Business School, the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and Harvard Kennedy School at Harvard University.

From 2003 until 2007, John Vickers was President of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and then became President for the Royal Economic Society from 2007 to 2010.

In 1998, John Vickers became chief economist at the Bank of England for two years.

John Vickers was notably a member of the Monetary Policy Committee.

In June 2010, John Vickers became chair of the Independent Commission on Banking founded in the United Kingdom.

John Vickers has written on a number of varying economic topics.