Professor Sir John Kay FRSE, FBA

I have been a Fellow of St John's since 1970. After ten years as a tutorial Fellow in Economics I established the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a respected think tank, and later a consultancy business. I also served as the College's Investment Officer for over twenty years.

My more recent interests have been writing about economics for a popular audience, through a weekly column in the Financial Times and a series of books, including The Truth about Markets (2003), Obliquity (2011), and Other People’s Money, which was published in 2015 to wide acclaim. The latter work asks 'what would a financial sector designed to meet the needs of the non-financial economy look like?'. The second edition of my 2009 book The Long and the Short of It – finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry was published in November 2016. Radical Uncertainty, jointly written with Mervyn King, was published in March 2020, and Greed is Dead, jointly written with Paul Collier, was published in July 2020.

In 2024, I published The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century: Why (almost) Everything We Are Told About Business is Wrong: an investigation of the crises of legitimacy faced by large corporations in the dematerialised economy of the twenty-first century.