Jagjit Chadha

Jagjit Chadha
Jagjit Chadha at Gresham College, 2014
Nationality	British
Fields	Macroeconomics
Institutions	University of Kent Gresham College

Jagjit Singh Chadha (born 1 December 1966) is an English economist who was Professor and Chair in Money and Banking in the Department of Economics at the University of Kent, Professor of Commerce at Gresham College, Chair of the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group and a specialist adviser to the Treasury Select Committee.

Chadha obtained his education from University College London and the London School of Economics. He then became an advisor and researcher at the Bank of England working on monetary economics, in particular on the interaction of financial markets and monetary regimes.

His early academic positions include: Lecturer in Macroeconomics in the Department of Economics at the University of Southampton, Fellow in the Faculty of Economics at Clare College, University of Cambridge, Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Dynamic Macroeconomic Analysis at the University of St Andrews.

After a period as the Chief Quantitative Economist at BNP Paribas, Chadha was appointed Professor of Economics in Keynes College at the University of Kent in 2007, where he is Chair in Money and Banking.

In August 2014, Chadha was appointed Mercers' School Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College for a period of three years, replacing Douglas McWilliams. Chadha's first series of six free public lectures is on Money, Monetary Policy and Central Banks: The Meeting of Art and Science.

Chadha has acted as an academic adviser to HM Treasury, the Treasury Select Committee and other policy-making institutions around the world. He is currently Chair of the Money, Macro and Finance Research Group (MMF). He is also the current Editor of the series Modern Macroeconomic Policy-making published by Cambridge University Press.