Philip Booth

Philip Booth is Senior Academic Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs and Professor of Finance, Public Policy and Ethics at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham. He also holds the position of Director of Research and Public Engagement at St. Mary’s. From 2002-2016, Philip was Academic and Research Director (previously, Editorial and Programme Director) at the IEA. From 2002-2015 he was Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School. Previously, Philip Booth worked for the Bank of England as an advisor on financial stability issues and he was also Associate Dean of Cass Business School and held various other academic positions at City University. He has written widely, including a number of books on investment, finance, social insurance, and pensions as well as on the relationship between Catholic social teaching and economics.

Philip is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and an honorary member of the Society of Actuaries of Poland. He has previously worked on a number of projects to help develop actuarial professions and actuarial, finance and investment professional teaching programmes in Central and Eastern Europe. Philip has a BA in Economics from the University of Durham and a PhD from City University.