Professor John Kay
Professor John Kay
Supernumerary Fellow in Economics
Biography
He has been a Fellow of the College since 1970: after ten years as a tutorial Fellow in Economics he established the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a respected think tank, and then a consultancy business, which he spent ten years building before selling his interest. Since then, his main interests have been writing about economics for a popular audience, through a weekly column in the Financial Times and a series of books, of which the most recent have been The Truth about Markets (2003), The Long and the Short of It (2009) and Obliquity (2010). He has been the College’s Investment Officer for over twenty years and his investment philosophy is expounded in The Long and the Short of It, whose subtitle is ‘finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry’. He is currently undertaking a review of the performance of equity markets for the UK government.
