Richard Portes, Professor of Economics at London Business School, Richard is the Founder and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Senior Editor and Co-Chairman of the Board of Economic Policy.

His current research interests include international macroeconomics, international finance, credit default swap (CDS) markets and European integration. He has written extensively on international currencies, financial stability, globalisation, sovereign borrowing and debt, European monetary issues, European financial markets, international capital flows, centrally planned economies and transition, macroeconomic disequilibrium, and European integration. More