Staff

Robert Skidelsky, Chairman

Robert Skidelsky is emeritus professor of political economy at Warwick University. His three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes (1983,1992, 2000) won five prizes and his book on the financial crisis – Keynes: The Return of the Master – was published in September 2010. He was made a member of the House of Lords in 1991 (he sits on the cross-benches) and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1994. He is also the co-author of How Much is Enough? The Love of Money and the Case for the Good Life (Allen Lane, 2012), written with his son Edward, author of Britain in the 20th Century: A Success? (Vintage, 2014), and editor of The Essential Keynes (Penguin Classics, 2015). He has recently filmed a series of lectures on the history and philosophy of economics which will be made available as an open online course in partnership with the Institute for New Economic Thinking. His most recent book, Money and Government: A challenge to mainstream economics was published by Allen Lane (London) and the Yale University Press (USA) in 2018.

Nan Craig

Nan Craig holds an MSc in Global Politics from the LSE and worked for the social enterprise Participle, and as a freelance researcher, before becoming Programme Director for the Centre for Global Studies.

Rachel Kay

Rachel Kay is a researcher at the Centre for Global Studies. Previous to joining the Centre, she completed an MPhil in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge. During her MPhil she researched the trade of bazaar goods between China and the Central Asian states, focussing on the transnational relationships created by bazaar trade.

Alex Bagenal

Alex Bagenal works on the political and philosophical implications of technology. Before joining the Centre for Global Studies he completed an MPhil in Political Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Cambridge, where he focussed on discussions of modernity in modern German and French political thought.