He has a long and distinguished record of successful forecasting of major events and market movements, often in contrast to the prevailing orthodoxy of the time, including: Roger is a much sought after performer at conferences and business gatherings around the world. In The Comment Awards 2012 he was named Economics Commentator of the year. Roger appears frequently on television and radio and is also a regular columnist for The Daily Telegraph. Roger is also joint author of the book Theory of Money, and author of Index-Linked Gilts. His earlier book, The Death of Inflation, published in 1996, became a best-seller and was subsequently translated into nine languages. Like his previous book, Money for Nothing, which correctly anticipated the financial crisis, they have been widely acclaimed. This follows Making a Success of Brexit which analyses what has gone wrong with the EU and what needs to be done to put it right, and The Trouble with Markets, which analyses the deep causes of the Global Financial Crisis and discusses the threats to capitalism arising from it. His latest book is The AI Economy – Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age. Roger has written many articles and several books on monetary economics. Most of his subsequent career has been spent in the City of London. Roger Bootle studied at Oxford University and then became a Lecturer in Economics at St Anne’s College, Oxford. In 2012, Roger and a team from Capital Economics won the Wolfson Prize, the second biggest prize in Economics after the Nobel. He was formerly Group Chief Economist of HSBC and, under the previous Conservative government, he was appointed one of the Chancellor’s panel of Independent Economic Advisers, the so-called ‘Wise Men’.
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From 1998 to 2017 Roger was a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee. He is Chairman of Capital Economics, which he founded in 1999, and an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
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Roger Bootle is one of the City of London’s best-known economists.