Guest lectures
Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee External Member Dr Catherine L Mann will deliver this year's economic prospects lecture at Leeds Business School.
External member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), Dr Catherine L Mann will join us to discuss the Bank’s very latest Monetary Policy Report. Due to be published early February 2025, this quarterly report sets out the very latest economic analysis and inflation projections that the MPC uses to inform its interest rate decisions.
We are really excited to welcome Catherine to Leeds Business School. Recently re-appointed to the MPC for a second term, her previous experience includes the OECD and Citibank. She will be sharing her incredible insight on inflation; growth; pay; unemployment; and inflation.
The Leeds Business School economic prospects lecture from the Bank of England has been one of the most highly anticipated events in the region’s business calendar for over 20 years. Hosted by Virgin Money, John Bullock, Head of Strategic Finance, Yorkshire & North East will introduce the lecture. Virgin Money has a long-standing association with Leeds Beckett University and the annual economic prospects lecture. From Leeds Business School, Professor Mark Rhodes will chair the Q&A.
Leeds Business School guest lectures have been a key feature of the regional business calendar for over 20 years.
Industry experts, leading business figures and entrepreneurs are invited to speak across a range of subjects including business and management, leadership, marketing, PR, economics, finance, accounting, and human resource management.
Open to business, professionals, students, alumni and Leeds Beckett University colleagues.
Dr Catherine L Mann is an External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee and was reappointed for a second time running from 1 September 2024 - 31 August 2027.
Dr Mann is a Professor of the Practice at Brandeis University. She contributes to the research program of The Productivity Institute and is a Science Advisor to the European Investment Bank. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Economic Association, among others. Previously she was Chair of the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association, a member of the Executive Board of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, on the Board of the National Association for Business Economics, and of the advisory committees of the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Boston, and New York.
Prior to her appointment, she was the Global Chief Economist at Citibank (2018 to 2021) and the Chief Economist, Head of Economics Department, and G20 Finance Deputy at the OECD (2014 to 2017). Previous to these, she was Rosenberg Professor of Global Finance at Brandeis University, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Assistant Director in the International Finance Division at the Federal Reserve Board.
Dr Mann’s research has focussed on international economic relationships and outcomes, including trade, finance, climate, productivity, and inequality. She has authored or co-authored seven books, 60-plus articles, and numerous shorter pieces and testimony.
Dr Mann’s university degree is from Harvard, and her PhD is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
John Bullock is Head of Strategic Finance, Yorkshire & North East at Virgin Money, leading a team which provides debt and other banking services to the SME, Structured Finance and Corporate Banking marketplaces across the region. John previously worked as a Director across the Corporate and Structured Finance markets and has held a number of other customer-facing roles during a banking career of over 20 years.
Professor Mark Rhodes is the Director of the School’s Sustainable Business Research Institute and secretary of the British Accounting and Finance Association special interest group on Financial Markets and Institutions. He is also a member of the Northern Advanced Research Training Initiative and (NARTI) and a member of a regional Research Leadership Development Consortium.
Mark obtained his doctorate from The University of Manchester (UMIST) in 1995. Following this he was employed as a teaching and research fellow in the Department of Economics, University of Warwick. In 1998 he joined the Economics of Financial Regulation Unit at the UK Financial Services Authority. He returned to academia in 2002, joining the School of Management and Business at Aberystwyth University as a Lecturer in Economics and later the University of East London in 2008. Mark joined Hull University in 2011 as a Senior Lecturer, moving to Leeds Business School in 2017.
