Robert Skidelsky is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick. His three volume biography of the economist John Maynard Keynes (1983, 1992, 2000) received numerous prizes, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and the Council on Foreign Relations Prize for International Relations. In Norman Stone’s words, “This three-volume life of the British economist should be given a Nobel Prize for History if there was such a thing”. Robert is the author of the The World After Communism (1995). He was made a life peer in 1991, and was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. The Machine Age was published in 2023 by Allen Lane and his next book Keynes for Our Times will be published by Yale University Press in June 2026.
Robert has given countless speeches at conferences, the Social Market Foundation and elsewhere. In November 2016, he addressed the House of Lords on currency fluctuations.
