Romesh Vaitilingam

Romesh Vaitilingam is a writer and media consultant, and a member of the editorial board of Vox. He is the author of numerous articles and several successful books in economics, finance, business and public policy, including The Financial Times Guide to Using the Financial Pages (FT-Prentice Hall), now in its sixth edition (2011). As a specialist in translating economic and financial concepts into everyday language, Romesh has advised a number of government agencies and international institutions, including the European Central Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the UK's Department for International Development. His work also involves consultancy for the economic research community, notably advising the Royal Economic Society, the Centre for Economic Performance at LSE and the Centre for Economic Policy Research on the management and development of their public profile; and training economists in communication skills. In 2003, he was awarded an MBE for services to economic and social science.

Posts:

• Integrating Economics With Psychology – Prize in Economic Sciences 2017, 09 Oct 2017
• Why and How Should We Communicate Economics?, 16 Jun 2017
• 2016 Nobel Prize in Economics – Contracts are everywhere in society, 10 Oct 2016
• The ideas of Reinhard Selten, 16 Sep 2016
• 2015 Nobel Prize in Economics: Consumption, great and small, 12 Oct 2015
• Virtual Visit at Alvin Roth’s Lab: Designing Markets, 30 Jul 2014
• Innovation and human flourishing, 25 Jul 2014