David Blanchflower

David Blanchflower
CBE
Member of the
Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England
In office
June 2006 – May 2009[1]
GovernorMervyn King
Personal details
Born (1952-03-02) 2 March 1952 (age 72)
Alma materUniversity of Leicester
University of Birmingham
University of Wales
Queen Mary, University of London
ProfessionEconomist

David Graham Blanchflower, CBE (born 2 March 1952), sometimes called Danny Blanchflower,[2][3][4][5] 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.[6]

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  2. ^ after the footballer, Danny Blanchflower
  3. ^ "Oration for Professor David Blanchflower by Dr Stephen Gurman". Archived from the original on 23 December 2012.
  4. ^ Professor David Blanchflower – Monetary Policy Committee Member Archived 30 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Bank of England, Accessed 12 December 2008
  5. ^ "Danny Blanchflower: The MPC is broken and blinkered". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  6. ^ "No. 59090". The London Gazette (Supplement). 13 June 2009. p. 7.