David Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone
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The Right Honourable The Lord Currie of Marylebone |
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| Chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority | |
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Assumed office 2012 |
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| Prime Minister |
David Cameron (to July 2016) Theresa May (from July 2016) |
| Minister |
Vince Cable (until 2015) Sajid Javid (2015-2016) Greg Clark (since 2016) |
| Preceded by | Organisation created |
| Chairman of the Office of Communications | |
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In office 2002–2009 |
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| Prime Minister | Tony Blair (until 2007), Gordon Brown (until 2009) |
| Minister | Tessa Jowell (until 2007), James Purnell (2007–2008), Andy Burnham (2008–2009), Ben Bradshaw (2009) |
| Preceded by | Organisation created |
| Succeeded by | Colette Bowe |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 9 December 1946 |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | House of Lords cross-bencher economist |
David Anthony Currie, Baron Currie of Marylebone (born 9 December 1946) is a British economist specialising in regulation, and a cross-bench member of the House of Lords. Currie has been the inaugural chairman of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) since 2012.
Currie was born in Streatham, south London, and attended Battersea Grammar School. He obtained a first class degree in mathematics at Manchester University and a master's degree in National Economic Planning at Birmingham University, after which he obtained a post as an economist with Hoare Govett. He took a position in 1972 as a lecturer at Queen Mary College, University of London, and progressed to an appointment as Professor of Economics. After that he spent 12 years at the London Business School, and was appointed as Professor of Economics in 1988.
In 1992, Currie became one of the 'six wise men' advising the Conservative Government's Treasury Department on economic matters as a member of the Treasury’s Panel of Independent Forecasters, where he remained for three years. Currie was a director and the Chairman of the executive committee of the pressure group Charter88 from 1993–1997. On 1 October 1996 he was made a life peer and sits as a cross-bench member of the House of Lords. His title was gazetted Baron Currie of Marylebone, of Marylebone in the City of Westminster.
In 2001, Currie was appointed Dean of the City University's business school. He secured a donation from the Sir John Cass Foundation and the following year the school changed its name to the Sir John Cass Business School, moved to larger premises, invested in new facilities and recruited academic staff to provide the new expanded programmes.
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