Lord Robert Skidelsky – Conversation with Zach Carter

Lord Robert Skidelsky


Lord Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. He is also a director of the Moscow School of Political Studies and was the founder and executive secretary of the UK/Russia Round Table. Since 2002, he has been chairman of the Centre for Global Studies. In 2010, he joined the Advisory Board of the Institute of New Economic Thinking. From 1953 to 1958, Lord Skidelsky was a boarder at Brighton College (of which he is now chairman of the board of governors). He went on to read history at Jesus College, Oxford, and from 1961 to 1969, he was successively research student, senior student, and research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. In 1967, he published his first book, Politicians and the Slump, Labour Government of 1929-31, based on his D.Phil dissertation. In 1978, he was appointed


Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick, where he has since remained, though joining the Economics Department as Professor Political Economy in 1990. He is currently Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University.

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Zach Carter is HuffPost’s Senior Political Economy Reporter, working out of Washington D.C. His story, “Swiped: Banks, Merchants and Why Washington Doesn’t Work for You,” written with Ryan Grim, was included in the Columbia Journalism Review’s compilation Best Business Writing 2012. He previously worked as AlterNet’s Economics Editor, blogged about economics policy at Campaign For America’s Future and served on the steering committee at Americans for Financial Reform.