Neil Record was born on 26 June 1953 and is a British businessman, author and economist who founded Record Currency Management, one of the earliest specialist currency managers.
15 Facts About Neil Record
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Neil Record was a short listed entrant for the 2012 Wolfson Economics Prize for his work on the Eurozone crisis.
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Neil Record was one of the main donors to the climate change denial think-tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation, and is one of the main backers of Kemi Badenoch's 2024 bid for the leadership of the conservative party.
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Neil Record attended Magdalen College School in Oxford on a state scholarship.
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Neil Record studied Philosophy and Psychology at Balliol College, Oxford and spent time at the University of Essex and University College London, from where he received an MSc in economics, with distinction.
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Neil Record began his career in 1977 at the Bank of England's Economic Intelligence Department, where he worked as an economist.
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Neil Record continued to grow rapidly through the 1980s and 1990s.
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Neil Record based the company in Windsor, where it has remained for the last thirty years.
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Neil Record is Chairman of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and was a visiting fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.
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Neil Record has written numerous papers and articles on currency management, the Euro and the pensions business.
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Neil Record has been an advocate of cutting the pensions of public sector workers and has written extensively on the public pensions system, including works such as Sir Humphrey's Legacy; facing up to the true cost of public sector pensions.
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Neil Record has been identified in September 2014 as one of the donors supporting the climate change denial think-tank the Global Warming Policy Foundation.
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Neil Record has been an outspoken critic of the Euro since 1995, but stated in 2012 that he remained a supporter of the economic cooperation derived from membership of the European Union.
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Neil Record is a director of the British heritage advocacy group Restore Trust.
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Neil Record has been a member of all three of the UK's major political parties over the course of his life, but was a major donor to the Conservative Party in the run-up to the 2010 general election.