Roger Alford, London School of Economics

Brief biography

Roger Francis Gower Alford graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) with First Class Honours in the B.Sc.Econ. in June 1952, and joined the LSE teaching staff in October 1952. Retired as Cassel Reader in Economics in October 1992 and is now Reader Emeritus. Seconded to the Bank of England April 1960 to May 1962.

After retirement he was asked by LSE to manage four courses on Banking and Finance for Post-graduate Russian students for which he also taught the Money and Banking sections. These courses were paid for by the Soros Foundation and the UK government Know-How Fund. He then organised and partly taught similar "Gurukul" courses for very promising young Indian businessmen until 1999.

Published books

• "Flow of Funds" (ISBN 0566005174), Gower 1986.
• Edited the book by his brother Michael Alford, "The Paradise Rocks", Phillimore 2002 (an evocation of their childhood at Bognor Regis in the 1930s).
• "Brangwyn in his Studio", edited with Dr. Libby Horner. This is the diary of his father Frank Alford when working with noted British designer and artist Sir Frank Brangwyn as his assistant in 1920-21.
• "Life and LSE" (ISBN 9781846243455), The Book Guild, 2009. An autobiography.

Articles

• Some help in understanding Britain's banking crisis, 2007-2009. Also available from the LSE Financial Markets Group Paper Series, as special paper 193 (ISSN 1359-9151-193)

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