John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell

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John Leonard Eatwell, Baron Eatwell (2 February 1945 – ) is an influential British economist and the current President of Queens' College, Cambridge, where he was also a student (1964-1967).

He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar and returned to Queens' as a research fellow. Eatwell has held several positions within the University of Cambridge, including Professor of Financial Policy at the Judge Business School and University Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics: he was a fellow of Trinity College from 1970 to 1996, when he was elected President of Queens'. He is also a member of various important national bodies. He was chief economic adviser to Neil Kinnock, then Leader of the Labour Party, from 1985 to 1992 and is a Labour member of the House of Lords as Baron Eatwell of Stratton St Margaret in the County of Wiltshire.

Eatwell is the current chairman of the British Library, and a director of the Royal Opera House.

In July 2006 Eatwell married Suzi Digby, the founder and Principal of The Voices Foundation, a national music education charity.

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