Gavyn Davies



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Full name: Gavyn Davies

Area of interest: Economics, business and finance, media business

Journals: The Guardian

Email: [mailto:gavyn.davies@fulcrumasset.com gavyn.davies@fulcrumasset.com]

Website: Fulcrum Asset Management: founders; Guardian.co / Gavyn Davies

Blog: Comment is free...

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Biography:
Education: St. John's College, Cambridge: Economics; Balliol College, Oxford: research

Career: Downing Street Policy Unit: economic adviser, 1976/1979; Phillips and Drew: economist, 1979/1981; Simon & Coates: chief UK economist, -1986: Goldman Sachs: chief UK economist, Goldman Sachs International: chief international economist, managing director; appointed BBC chairman; The Independent: principal economics commentator, 1991/1999; member of HM Treasury's independent forecasting panel, 1992/1997; visiting professor at the London School of Economics; economic adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee; Chaired UK Government inquiry into the Future Funding of the BBC, 1999; vice-chairman of the BBC, 2001; chairman of the BBC Board of Governors, 2001/2004 (resigning the post in January 2004); Founding partner of Active Private Equity and Prisma Capital Partners and Chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management; The Guardian: ‘Gavyn Davies does the maths’ weekly column on statistics and probability, 2005/2006, now writes irregular comment pieces

Current position/role: occasional comment writer


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Other activities: Chairman of Fulcrum Asset Management and Head of the Fulcrum Investment Committee

Disclosures:

Viewpoints/Insight: Evening Standard: Gavyn Davies profile by David Rowan, 19th September 2001

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Controversy/Criticism: BBC News 24: BBC chairman quits over Hutton, January 2004

Awards/Honours: Awarded OBE, 1979; honorary doctor of science (social sciences) by the University of Southampton. 1998; received an honorary degree of doctor of laws from Nottingham University, appointed a fellow of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth., 2002; received a fellowship of the Imperial College faculty of medicine, 2003

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Books & Debate:

 * Broadcasting, society and policy in the multimedia age OCLC39075932 ,with Andrew Graham, 1997
 * Japan NPL disposal: opening a pandora's box? OCLC52836711, 2001
 * Rising recession probabilities in America and Japan OCLC52918406, 2001

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The Guardian:
no column at present

Column remit: Finance and Economics

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Role: Occasional comment writer

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Website: Guardian.co / Gavyn Davies

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Articles:

 * We need the stimulus now - David Cameron thinks the prospect of higher taxes after 2010 will stop people spending. But they're not thinking that far ahead - 9th December 2008
 * Use overwhelming (economic) force - Monday's pre-budget report will tell us if the British government, like the US, is prepared to spend its way out of depression - 21st November 2008
 * We must start thinking like South American dictators - An economy on the brink of deflation needs to jettison the orthodoxies of prudence - in favour of a licence to print money - 13th November 2008
 * A once-in-a-generation downturn - The Bank of England has got it right. A big cut in the base rate was necessary – and it may have to fall again - 6th November 2008
 * Time to tear up the fiscal rulebook - With the economy shrinking fast, any alternative to slashing interest rates and raising borrowing will be worse - 24th October 2008
 * Will the bail-out work? - Eric Hobsbawm, Gavyn Davies and Howard Davies offer their analysis of the current economic situation - 9th October 2008
 * Life beyond the oil shock - Price rises have to be absorbed, but needn't permanently affect inflation expectations - 18th June 2008
 * The bubble over Britain - The City of London is by nature exuberant. The UK's real threat lies in its overvalued housing - 8th April 2008
 * King will earn his corn - with Britain on the brink of recession, we are lucky to have such a safe pair of hands at the central bank - 16th November 2007
 * The roots of moral hazard - Northern Rock's rescue is a sign that the financial market watchdogs have not been doing their job - 15th September 2007
 * Verge of a meltdown - we've been here before. The financial crisis is spreading and central banks must act to halt it - 11th August 2007
 * Gavyn Davies does the maths - How many have died in Iraq? - 19th October 2006
 * Gavyn Davies does the maths - If they forecast rain, take an umbrella - 12th October 2006



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