Roger Bootle
Managing Director, Capital Economics

One of the City of London's best-known economists, Roger Bootle runs the consultancy, Capital Economics, which specialises in macroeconomics and the economics of the property market. He is also Economic Adviser to Deloitte, a Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and a Visiting Professor at Manchester Business School. He was formerly Group Chief Economist of the HSBC Group and, before the change of government; he was a member of the former Chancellor's panel of Independent Economic Advisers, the so-called "Wise Men".

Roger Bootle studied at Oxford University and then became a Lecturer in Economics at St Anne's College, Oxford. Most of his subsequent career has been spent in the City of London.

He has written many articles and several books on monetary economics. His latest book Money for Nothing - Real Wealth, Financial Fantasies and the Economy of the Future, was published recently. This follows the success of The Death of Inflation, published in 1996, which became a best-seller and was subsequently translated into nine languages. Initially dismissed as extreme, The Death of Inflation is now widely recognised as prophetic. Roger is also joint author of the book Theory of Money, and author of Index-Linked Gilts.

A regular columnist on The Sunday Telegraph, Roger also appears frequently on national television and radio.