Dr. John Llewellyn is Lehman Brothers’ Senior Economic Policy Advisor for Europe.
Dr. Llewellyn, a New Zealander, received his Doctorate at the University of Oxford. In 1970 he was appointed a Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge. From 1972 he was a Fellow of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and in 1974 he was appointed Assistant Director of Research in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge.
He then spent seventeen years at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where for the first eight he was in charge of international economic forecasting and policy analysis; he was also editor of the OECD Economic Outlook. He then became Deputy Director for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education, and for the last five years he was Head of the Secretary-General’s Private Office (Chief of Staff). From 1995 to 2006, he was Global Chief Economist at Lehman Brothers.
Dr. Llewellyn’s published work has covered a range of economic topics, including growth, employment and unemployment, international trade, exchange rates, the balance of payments, inflation, commodity prices, taxation, forecasting, economic policymaking, and international economic co-operation. Together with two former colleagues, he has also published two books: one on the international aspects of forecasting, modelling, and economic co-operation; and the other on economic policies for the 1990s.
Dr. Llewellyn is a member of the Handelsblatt/Wall Street Journal ECB Shadow Council; a member of the President of the European Commission’s Group of Economic Policy Analysis; a member of the International Economics Advisory Board, Chatham House; and a member of the UK Department of Trade and Industry Secretary of State’s Panel on Monitoring the Economy.
Columns by John Llewellyn at eceee's website
