Paul Temperton

Paul Temperton has run his own economic consultancy company, TIER (The Independent Economic Research Company) since 1993. He provides consultancy and training programmes to a range of official institutions and financial organisations around the world.

Paul graduated from Durham University, England in 1980 with a first class honours degree in Economics. He obtained his CFA charter in 2000. He began his career in the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Group, working on the design and implementation of UK monetary policy. This was followed by ten years working in the City, mainly with Merrill Lynch, where he was first vice president and Director of European Economic and Fixed Income Research. He has written or edited a total of seven books on economics, UK monetary policy and the euro. The most recent was The UK and the Euro (published by Wiley, 2001).