Coffee with the Economists 2023

Dr Gerard Lyons is an economist described by The Times as, “one of the most influential analysts of the global economy.” He is Chief Economic Strategist at Netwealth Investments, the discretionary wealth manager he helped establish in 2016, Board member of both Bank of China (UK) and BGC Partners, and Advisory Board member of both the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Warwick Business School. He is also a Senior Fellow at Policy Exchange. Some previous roles include Head of Global Research and Chief Economist at Standard Chartered Bank, Member of Councils for the World Economic Forum, Member of the EU Commission’s Network of China Experts, Lead Advisor to PM Gordon Brown’s 2008 Business Council, Chief Economic Advisor to Boris Johnson from 2013-16 when Mayor of London, and in 2019 he was a candidate to be Governor of the Bank of England.

Professor Russell Napier is author of The Solid Ground investment report for institutional investors and co-founder of the investment research portal ERIC- a business he now co-owns with D.C. Thomson. Russell has worked in the investment business for over 30 years and has been advising global institutional investors on asset allocation since 1995. Russell is author of the book Anatomy of The Bear: Lessons From Wall Street’s Four Great Bottoms (‘a cult classic’ according to the FT) and is founder and course director of The Practical History of Financial Markets at The Edinburgh Business School. Russell is Chairman of Mid Wynd International Investment Trust a GBP500m market cap. closed end investment vehicle listed on the London Stock Exchange. He is a member of the investment advisory committees of three fund management companies, Cerno Capital, Kennox Asset Management and Bay Capital. In 2014 Russell founded the charitable venture The Library of Mistakes a business and financial history library in Edinburgh that now has branches in India and Switzerland. Russell has degrees in law from Queen’s University Belfast and Magdalene College Cambridge. He is a Fellow of The CFA Society of the UK and is an Honorary Professor at The University of Stirling and a Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University. He is a contributing columnist for The Toronto Star newspaper. His second book – The Asian Financial Crisis 1995-1998: Birth of the Age of Debt- was published in July 2021.

Jeffrey Cleveland is a Director at Payden & Rygel, the Chief Economist, and a member of the firm's Investment Policy Committee. Jeffrey frequently speaks at industry forums and appears on TV and radio to discuss financial markets and the economy.    Jeffrey earned a MA in International Political Economy with an emphasis in international money and finance from Claremont Graduate University and a BA in Economics/Global Political Economy from Whittier College through the Whittier Scholars Program.   An avid open-water swimmer, Jeffrey swam across the English Channel, the Catalina Channel, and around Manhattan--the 36th person to complete this "triple crown" of open-water swimming.