Brian Griffiths

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Brian Griffiths, Baron Griffiths of Fforestfach , (born December 27, 1941 in Fforestfach , Swansea , Wales ) is a British economist and politician ( Conservative Party ).

Life

Brian Griffiths studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and taught there from 1965 to 1976. In 1976 he became Professor of Banking and International Finance at City University London . From 1982 to 1985 he was Dean of City University Business School (since 2002 Cass Business School ).

He was director of the Bank of England from 1983 to 1985 . Griffiths was Head of the Prime Minister's Policy Unit from 1985 to 1990 and a senior advisor to Margaret Thatcher . Griffiths has been Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs International since 1990 . He also works for Times Newspaper and Herman Miller Inc. He is a director of ServiceMaster, the English, Welsh and Scottish Railway, and the Land Securities Trillium. He was Chairman of Westminster Health Care from 1999 to 2002. He is Vice President of the Nature in Art Trust.

On February 5, 1991, he was appointed Baron Griffiths of Fforestfach , of Fforestfach in the County of West Glamorgan , by Queen Elizabeth II . He chairs various committees of the House of Lords . From 1991 to 2001 he was chairman of the Center for Politics of the House of Lords.

Griffiths, a member of the Church of England , chairs the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Fund and Christian Responsibility in Public Affairs . He is committed to the Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice (CAPP) foundation founded by Pope John Paul II in 1991 and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pontifical Foundation.

He has published numerous papers on financial policy and business ethics.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brian Griffiths ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Wales - Welcome to the official gateway to Wales  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wales.com
  2. ↑ LIFE PEERS (BARONS) CREATED UNDER THE LIFE PEERAGES ACT 1958 ( Memento of the original from May 20, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk
  3. ↑ Viktoria Somogyi: "Lord Brian Griffiths on Globalization" ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Zenit, November 13, 2006  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zenit.org
  4. ^ Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice: Organization , accessed October 19, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Griffiths, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Griffiths, Brian, Baron Griffiths of Fforestfach (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Fforestfach , Swansea , Wales