David Blanchflower
David Blanchflower | |
|---|---|
| Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England | |
| In office June 2006 – May 2009 | |
| Governor | Mervyn King |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 2 March 1952 |
| Alma mater | University of Leicester University of Birmingham University of Wales Queen Mary, University of London |
| Profession | Economist |
David Graham Blanchflower, CBE (born 2 March 1952), sometimes called Danny Blanchflower, is a British-American labour economist and academic. He is currently a tenured economics professor at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, part-time professor at the University of Glasgow and a Bloomberg TV contributing editor. He was an external member of the Bank of England's interest rate-setting Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) from June 2006 to June 2009.
British-born, Blanchflower is now both a British and an American citizen, having moved to the United States in 1989. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.