Jon Cunliffe lectured at the University of Western Ontario, before joining the UK Department of the Environment and Transport in 1980.
14 Facts About Jon Cunliffe
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Jon Cunliffe was appointed Deputy Director for International Finance at HM Treasury in 1998, then promoted to Director of International Finance, and then managing director of Macroeconomic Policy and International Finance.
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In 2007 following Gordon Brown's appointment as Prime Minister, Jon Cunliffe was appointed Head of the European and Global Issues Secretariat.
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On 24 June 2011, Number 10 announced that Jon Cunliffe would replace Kim Darroch as British Permanent Representative to the EU in January 2012.
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Jon Cunliffe was replaced in the role by Ivan Rogers.
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Jon Cunliffe currently serves as Deputy Governor of the Bank of England for Financial Stability.
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Jon Cunliffe took up the role in November 2013 and is an ex officio member of the Bank's Financial and Monetary Policy Committees and its Court of Directors.
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Jon Cunliffe replaced Paul Tucker when the latter was passed over for promotion to Governor in favour of Mark Carney, and chose instead when the announcement was made in June 2013 to lecture at Harvard.
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In September 2020, Jon Cunliffe was appointed to the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation by the then Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick.
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Jon Cunliffe oversaw "Project Bookend", the Bank of England's project to examine the possible economic effects of the UK leaving the EU following the upcoming 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum.
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Jon Cunliffe suggested in a March 2014 speech at Chatham House that the domestic banks were too big to fail, and instead of the nationalisation process used in the case of HBOS, RBS and threatened for Barclays, could henceforth be bailed-in.
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Jon Cunliffe, who is Anglo-Jewish, married his wife at the New London Synagogue in St John's Wood, north-west London.
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Jon Cunliffe has two daughters, one of whom works as an online editor at the New Statesman.
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Jon Cunliffe was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the New Year Honours 2001, and made a Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2010.