Robert Skidelsky debates business ethics, tyrants and NATO

Robert Skidelsky

Economic historian and author

Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. He is the author of the The World After Communism (1995) (American edition called The Road from Serfdom). He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994.

Since 2003, he has been a non-executive director of the mutual fund manager, Janus Capital. In 2008, he was made a non-executive director of Sistema, the Russian telecommunications giant. He is a director of the Moscow School of Political Studies and founder and executive secretary of the UK/Russia Round Table. Since 2002, he has been chairman of the Centre for Global Studies. He is also a trustee of the Manhattan Institute.

Skidelsky writes a monthly column for Project Syndicate, "Against the Current", which is syndicated in newspapers all over the world. His account of the current economic crisis, Keynes: The Return of the Master, was published by Penguin Allen Lane in September 2009. He is currently working with Vijay Joshi, fellow at St John's College, Oxford, on a book on globalisation and international relations for Oxford University Press.