Gerard Lyons has been described by The Times as \u2018one of the most influential analysts of the global economy.\u2019 He has over thirty years of experience in senior roles in the City and public policy and in 2019 was a candidate for Governor of the Bank of England.
\nFrom 2012-16 he was Chief Economic Advisor to Boris Johnson, when he was Mayor of London. Previously he was also the Lead Advisor to Prime Minister Gordon Brown\u2019s 2008 Business Council, an inaugural member of the EU Commission\u2019s Network of China Experts and sat on several Councils of the World Economic Forum. From 1999-2012 he was Head of Global Research and Chief Economist at Standard Chartered Bank, where he was credited as one of the few economists to predict the 2008 global financial crisis. In 2010 & 2011, Bloomberg ranked his team as the most accurate forecasters globally. Gerard has been a member of the Advisory Board of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment since its inception in 2008 and since 2022 has been a member of The Bretton Woods Committee Climate and Energy Transition Finance (CEFT) project team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"