Crockett joined the
Bank of England in 1966, and the
International Monetary Fund in 1972. He was an executive director of the Bank of England from 1989 to 1993, before becoming General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in 1994. After retiring from the BIS in 2003, he joined
JPMorgan Chase, the U.S. banking firm, where he was Special Advisor to the chairman and a member of the executive committee until shortly before his death. Crockett was also a member of the
Group of Thirty. He authored several books on economic and financial subjects, as well as numerous articles in scholarly publications.
Honours He was
knighted in 2003 and named European Banker of the Year in 2000 == Personal life==