Beesley Lecture: Regulating banking as a utility

12th November 2009, Institute of Directors, London

Speakers include:

Paul Tucker

Deputy Governor, Financial Stability, Bank of England

Biography

He was appointed Deputy Governor, Financial Stability, Bank of England in 2009 and is currently also a Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, the Bank’s Court of Directors and the Governor's Executive Team.

He joined the Bank of England in 1993, and has since held the roles of Head of Gilt-Edged & Money Markets Division, Head of Monetary Assessment and Strategy Division and Deputy Director, Financial Stability. He was also closely involved with the Bank's Financial Stability Review. From 2002 until now he was Executive Director for Markets.

John Kay

Professor of Management, University of Oxford

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Conference overview:

Speaker: John Kay, Professor of Management, University of Oxford
Chair: Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor, Financial Stability, Bank of England
Commentator: Philip Booth, Editorial and Programme Director, Institute of Economic Affairs

The Beesley Lectures are a series of eight annual lectures covering the regulated industries in the UK. Now in their nineteenth year, the lectures are held in memory of Professor Michael Beesley, who founded the series in 1991 and organized them until his death in 1999. He was a leading architect of the British system of utility regulation and a Managing Trustee of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Each evening will begin at the Institute of Directors at 6.30pm. Delegates are encouraged to network over refreshments until 7pm, when the lecture will commence. An industry-leading speaker will give a one hour lecture and a specialist will give a short response before handing over to the audience for further discussion. Each lecture will end at 8.45pm with refreshments.