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Dr John Llewellyn

Dr John LlewellynSenior Economic Policy Advisor Lehman Brothers

Dr. Llewellyn is Lehman Brothers' Senior Economic Policy Advisor.

Dr. Llewellyn, a New Zealander, received his undergraduate degree at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and his Doctorate at the University of Oxford. In 1970 he was appointed a Research Officer in the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge. From 1972 he was a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and in 1974 he was appointed Assistant Director of Research in the Faculty of Economics at Cambridge.

He then spent seventeen years at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris, where for the first eight he was in charge of international economic forecasting and policy analysis; he was also editor of the OECD Economic Outlook. He then became Deputy Director for Social Affairs, Manpower and Education, and for the last five years he was Head of the Secretary-General's Private Office (Chief of Staff). From 1995 to 2006, he was Global Chief Economist at Lehman Brothers.

Dr. Llewellyn has published on a number of academic subjects in economics, and on a wide range of other topics including: international economic policymaking and co-ordination; economic forecasting, and climate change. Together with two former colleagues, he has also published two books: one on the international aspects of forecasting, modelling, and economic co-operation; and the other on economic policies for the 1990s. In February 2007 Lehman Brothers published his report The Business of Climate Change: Challenges and Opportunities.

Dr. Llewellyn is a member of the President of the European Commission's Group of Economic Policy Analysis; a member of the Council of Chatham House; a member of the Council of the Society of Business Economists; a member of the UK Department of Trade and Industry Secretary of State's Panel on Monitoring the Economy; a Trustee of the FIA Foundation for the Automobile and Society; and an Adjunct Professor at Imperial College, London.