David Blake

Background

Dr David Blake is Professor of Pension Economics at Cass Business School, City of London, and Director of the Pensions Institute. He is also Chairman of Square Mile Consultants, a training and research consultancy.  Formerly Director of the Securities Industry Programme at City University Business School, Research Fellow at both the London Business School and the London School of Economics and Professor of Financial Economics at Birkbeck College, University of London. 

Consultant to many organisations, including JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Union Bank of Switzerland, Paribas Capital Markets, McKinsey & Co., Financial Research Services Ltd, James Capel, Schroders, UNESCO, Taunton Cider Company, Hill and Knowlton, the Independent Television Companies Association, the Office of Fair Trading, the Office for National Statistics, the National Audit Office, Financial Services Authority, Association of British Insurers, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England & Wales, the Government Actuary’s Department, the Department for Work & Pensions, HM Treasury, the Bank of England, the World Bank, and the Prime Minister’s Policy Directorate.

David Blake was a student at the London School of Economics in the 1970s and early 1980s, gaining his PhD on UK pension fund investment behaviour in 1986.  His research interests include the modelling of longevity risk, the investment behaviour and performance of pension funds and mutual funds, pension plan design, and mortality-linked securities.  He has published in major economics and finance journals in all these fields. He is author of Financial Market Analysis published by Wiley in 2000, A Short Course of Economics published by McGraw Hill in 1993, Modelling Pension Fund Investment Behaviour and Issues in Pension Funding both published by Routledge in 1992, Pension Schemes and Pension Funds in the United Kingdom published by Oxford University Press in 2003, and Pension Economics and Pension Finance, both published by Wiley in 2006.  Professor Blake gave evidence to the Goode Committee in March 1993 and was a member of the Retirement Income Working Party which published its report Improving Security and Flexibility in Retirement in March 2000. 

In June 1996, he established the Pensions Institute. The Pensions Institute undertakes high quality research on all pension-related issues and publishes details of its research activities on the internet (http://www.pensions-institute.org).

Other affiliations: Senior Research Associate, Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics (since April 2001); Research Associate, Centre for Risk & Insurance Studies, University of Nottingham Business School (since October 2001); Member of the Academic Advisory Panel of the Finance and Investment Board of the Institute of Actuaries (since October 2001); Senior Consultant, UBS Pensions Research Centre, London School of Economics (since November 2001).

Professor Blake regularly speaks at international conferences on pensions and pension funds in the UK, Europe, the Far East, Australia and the Americas.

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