Academic career , at the
Senate House in June 2014 While studying for his doctorate at
Harvard University, Eatwell was a
teaching fellow in the
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences from 1968 to 1969 and a
research fellow at
Queens' College, Cambridge, from 1969 to 1970. In 1970, he was elected a
Fellow of
Trinity College, Cambridge, and would stay with the college for the next 36 years. Having completed his doctorate in 1975, he was an assistant lecturer (1975–1977) and then lecturer (1977–2002) in the
University of Cambridge's Faculty of Economics and Politics. and Professor of Financial Policy at the
Cambridge Judge Business School from 2002 to 2012. The University of Bath awarded Lord Eatwell with an
Honorary Doctorate of Policy Research and Practice (DPRP) in December 2022. The award recognises Eatwell as 'an internationally acclaimed economist who has made a distinguished contribution to the intellectual, political and cultural life of the United Kingdom.'
Political career Eatwell was chief economic adviser to
Neil Kinnock, the then-Leader of the
Labour Party, from 1985 to 1992. He was created a
life peer as
Baron Eatwell, of
Stratton St Margaret in the
County of Wiltshire, on 14 July 1992, and joined the
House of Lords as a Labour peer. From 27 March 2014 to 23 April 2020, he sat as a
non-affiliated peer. Once more sitting as a Labour peer, he has served on the Lords Industry and Regulators Committee since 14 April 2021.
Other works Eatwell was chair of
CRUSAID, an HIV/AIDS charity, from 1993 to 1998, and of the
British Library Board from 2001 to 2006. ==Personal life==