Professor Peter Oppenheimer:

Peter Oppenheimer has been a Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, since 1967 and was recently President of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, prior to which his main function was teaching economics. In 1976-77 he was the National Westminster Bank Visiting Professor of International Finance at the London Graduate School of Business Studies and between 1985 and 1986 he was seconded to the Shell International Petroleum Company as Chief Economist. Professor Oppenheimer has been a non-executive Director of a variety of companies, both public and private (including Dixons plc, Oxford University Press and the Jewish Chronicle Newspaper) as well as a Governor for four schools. He is an experienced broadcaster and his publications include "International Monetary Arrangements: The Limits to Planning" 1979; co-editor of "Quest for World Monetary Order" 1980 and co-editor and contributor "Russia’s Post-Communist Economy (OUP, 2001).