Date: Thursday, 10 May 2018
Time: 7pm for 7:30pm
Venue: The New Club, 86 Princes St, Edinburgh EH2 2BB
Ticket price: £65
Dress code: Black tie
Guests: Maximum of one

Join the Cambridge Society of Edinburgh for pre-dinner drinks followed by a three course dinner with wine.

Lord Eatwell, President of Queens’ College, will speak after dinner on 'Long term trends in the British Economy - what are today's real problems?'

John Eatwell is President of Queens' College, Emeritus Professor of Financial Policy at the University of Cambridge and a member of the Centre for Science and Policy’s Executive Committee.

From 1985 to 1992 he served as Economic Adviser to Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labour Party, and was responsible for much of the work that led to a substantial re-alignment of the Labour Party’s economic policies. In 1992 he entered the House of Lords, and from 1993 to 1997 was Principal Opposition Spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs, a position he resumed in 2010. In 2009 he became a member of the House of Lords’ Economic Affairs Committee.  

In 1988, together with others, John Eatwell set up the Institute for Public Policy Research, one of Britain’s leading policy think-tanks. He remains a trustee of the Institute. From 1997 to 2002 he sat on the board of the Securities and Futures Authority, Britain’s securities markets regulator, where he developed his interest in securities regulation. He was a member of the Regulatory Decisions Committee of the Financial Services Authority from 2001 until 2006. He is Chairman of the Jersey Financial Services Commission. 

Currently, John Eatwell is an adviser to E.M. Warburg Pincus & Co. International Ltd., and to Palamon Capital Partners, LLP. He is also Chairman of the Royal Opera House Pension Fund.