Dr Gerard Lyons

    Senior Independent Director, Bank of China (UK) Limited

Gerard Lyons is a highly respected economist and has been described by the Times as "one of the most influential analysts of the global economy."

On public policy, he advised Boris Johnson when Mayor of London, was senior advisor to PM Gordon Brown's Business Council for Britain, was a candidate for Governor of the Bank of England in 2019, was an inaugural member of the EU Commission's Network of China Experts and has sat on several Councils of the World Economic Forum. He has testified to committees of the US Senate and House of Representatives, and to committees of both Houses of the UK Parliament, and spoken in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, at a UK-China summit. His paper ‘Banking the Unbanked' was presented at the Commonwealth Finance Ministers Conference and his report ‘Qatar 2020' was commissioned by and presented to the Emir.

On the environment, he has sat on 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 Washington-based Bretton Woods Committee's Climate and Energy Transition Finance (CEFT) project team.

In the City of London, he is a board member of two global firms, being the Senior Independent Director at the Bank of China (UK) and Chair of the Risk Committee at the global brokerage firm, BGC Partners, and is also the Chief Economic Strategist at Netwealth investments, a discretionary wealth-manager. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum. He has sat on the Board of The City UK.

Dr Lyons is an active contributor to the policy debate, being a Senior Research Fellow at the think-tank The Centre for Policy Studies and has an excellent forecasting record, being credited as one of the few economists to predict the 2008 global financial crisis and his team when he was Global Head of Research at Standard Chartered was awarded top global forecaster by Bloomberg. In 2010, he was elected by the economic members to serve a five-year term on the Council of the Royal Economic Society, and he also joined the strategy group. Since 2011 he has been appointed a Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists. In 2021, he was appointed a member of the UK economy Honors Committee. His website and full biography is at www.drgerardlyons.com.