Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden

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Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden CB KCMG (born December 1, 1907 in Novoselyzja , † March 30, 2005 ) was an economist , British civil servant and banker .

Life

Eric Roll was born as Erich Roll in what was then Nowosielitza in Bukowina in what was then Austria-Hungary . His family lived temporarily in Vienna , where he attended high school. But after the end of the First World War , the family moved to Chernivtsi , which at that time still belonged to Romania . At the age of 17 he followed his parents' wishes in 1925 and began studying economics at the University of Birmingham in England . In 1930 he graduated with a doctorate and took British citizenship. After graduating, he became a lecturer in economics at University College Hull (now the University of Hull ). In 1935 he became a professor in Hull and in 1938, while he was working there, published the textbook The History of Economic Thought , which saw numerous reprints. With the support of the Rockefeller Foundation , Eric Roll went to the USA in 1939. He turned down the offer of a position at the University of Texas and was active in June 1941 as part of the war effort at the British Food Mission in Washington .

After the war ended, Roll did not return to university, but worked for the UK Department of Agriculture and the Central Planning Commission in the Treasury. From 1949 he worked in Paris, first in the Marshall Plan Organization and then for the British government at OECD and also at NATO . From 1957 he was the head of the International Sugar Council. His next position in London brought him back to the Department of Agriculture, from where he joined the British negotiating delegation for Britain's entry into the EEC . Eric Roll was a staunch European who was disappointed in the fruitless negotiations and who later criticized Edward Heath's negotiating tactics. Next, Roll was back in the US, where the Treasury Department had sent him as a British representative to the IMF and the World Bank . After two years he returned to London in 1964 to work as permanent under-secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs . In 1966 he retired as a civil servant.

In 1967 he was first Deputy Chairman, then from 1974 Chairman and from 1987 to 1995 President of Bank SG Warburg & Co (now UBS Warburg ). After 1995 he worked as a Senior Adviser for the bank. At the same time he was temporarily a director of the Bank of England and from 1974 the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Southampton .

Eric Roll was named a Life Peer in 1977.

Roll, who at times after the end of the Second World War could not bring himself to speak or read German, nominated Goethe's Faust in 2001 on the BBC radio program Desert Island Discs as the book of his choice.

Eric Roll was married to Winifred (Freda) Taylor, a college friend, from 1934 to 1998. The couple had 2 daughters.

Publications

  • Eric Roll, A History of Economic Thought , 5th revised Edition, London Faber and Faber, 2002 ISBN 978-0-571-16553-7 .
  • Eric Roll, Crowded Hours , 1985 (autobiography).

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SURNAME Roll, Eric, Baron Roll of Ipsden
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Roll, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British economist, civil servant and banker
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Novoselytsia
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 2005