Previously, Professor in Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Economics, Univ of Leicester, a Senior Research Officer, Department of Applied Economics, Univ of Cambridge and College Lecturer in Economics, Trinity College, Univ of Cambridge. Before Cambridge he worked at the Bank of England as a Manager, in Monetary Analysis and prior to this was a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School .