Top financial decision maker gives Business School lecture

Teesside Business School, at the University of Teesside, will welcome Kate Barker, a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), to deliver its annual business lecture on Thursday 20 November, at 7pm.

The MPC is the body which meets monthly to determine the UK's interest rates.

Kate Barker’s talk will cover shifts in the structure of the world economy affect decisions on UK monetary policy, the increasingly influential role that China will play on the future world stage and the possible threat to the short-term prospects for the UK economy posed by the large US trade deficit and the sluggish recovery in Europe.

She will deliver her talk at the University of Teesside’s Innovation Building to an audience of around 200.

It will be a return visit for Ms Barker who first came to Teesside Business School in January 2002, when her talk entitled 'Aspects of Monetary Policy' was heard by an audience of staff and students.

Professor John Wilson, Director of Teesside Business School, said: “Kate Barker’s lecture will be the third in a series of high profile lectures and I am delighted that the School, the University and the wider community will be able to benefit from hearing first hand the views of such distinguished speakers.’”

This year’s event will be the third in Teesside Business School's series of Annual Business Lectures. The inaugural lecture in 2001, held to celebrate the launch of Teesside Business School. was delivered by the University's Chancellor, the Rt Hon the Lord Brittan of Spennithorne QC. Last year the lecture was delivered by Digby Jones, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry.

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