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Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance
London School of Economics
London
Prof. Charles Goodhart was born in London in 1936. He obtained the Bachelor of Arts
Degree from Cambridge in 1960 and Ph.D in 1963 from Harvard University. Prof. Charles
Goodhart, CBE, FBA is now the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at
the London School of Economics. Before joining the London School of Economics in
1985, he worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary adviser,
becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. During 1986, Prof. Goodhart helped to found, with
Prof. Mervyn King, the Financial Markets Group at London School of Economics, which
began its operation at the start of 1987. In 1997, he was appointed one of the outside
independent members of the Bank of England’s new Monetary Policy Committee until
May 2000. Earlier he had taught at Cambridge and London School of Economics. Besides
numerous articles, he has written a couple of books on monetary history, and a graduate
monetary textbook, Money, Information and Uncertainty (2nd Edition 1989);
and has published two collections of papers on monetary policy, Monetary Theory
and Practice (1984) and The Central Bank and The Financial System (1995); and an
institutional study of The Evolution of Central Banks, revised and republised (MIT
Press ) in 1988.
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