Sir Paul Tucker
Chair, Systemic Risk Council
Visiting Fellow (Nuffield College, Oxford)
Sir Paul Tucker is a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Business School. He was Deputy Governor at the Bank of England from 2009 to October 2013, having joined the Bank in 1980.
He was a member of all of the Bank of England's statutory policy committees: the Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee (vice chair), Prudential Regulatory Authority Board (vice chair), as well as of the Court of Directors.
Internationally, he was a member of the steering committee of the G20 Financial Stability Board, and chaired its Committee on the Resolution of Cross-Border Banks in order to solve the “too big to fail” problem.
He was a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements, and was chair of the Basel Committee for Payment and Settlement Systems from April 2012.
He is a Visiting Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford, and a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation. Sir Paul was awarded a knighthood in the 2014 New Year’s Honours list for his services to central banking.
