Committee Willem Buiter, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee Nugget Coombs, Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia Stanley Fischer, Governor of the Bank of Israel; former World Bank Chief Economist Neville Ubeysin-gha Jayawardena, Sri Lankan Sinhala economist, entrepreneur, and Senator; first indigenous governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Stephen Nickell, economist, ex-member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee Amarananda Somasiri Jayawardene, Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Louis Rasminsky, Governor of the Bank of Canada, 1961–1973 Nobel laureates Guy Medal (statistics) recipients 1945 Sir Maurice Kendall (Gold) 1976 James Durbin (Silver) 1978 Sir R. G. D. Allen (Gold) 1982 Henry Wynn (Silver) 2007 Howell Tong (Silver) 2008 James Durbin (Gold) Academics Economists Daron Acemoglu, economist, John Bates Clark Medal Winner 2005 Sir Roy Allen, economist and mathematician Thomas Armbrüster, economist Heinz Wolfgang Arndt, economist Kaushik Basu, chief economist of the World Bank Peter Thomas Bauer, development economist William Baumol, professor of economics and director, C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics, New York University Jo Beall, professor of development studies Walter Berns, scholar, American Enterprise Institute Sir Tim Besley, economist Kenneth Binmore, economist Sir Richard Blundell, economist and econometrician Sir Alan Budd, British economist, provost of The Queen's College, Oxford Richard N. Cooper, Maurits C. Boas Professor of International Economics, Harvard University; previously chairman, National Intelligence Council and; Under Secretary of State for Economic Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai, development economist Ian Goldin, development economist, director of Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford Charles Goodhart, economist, ex-member of Monetary Policy Committee W. M. Gorman, economist Sir Theodore Gregory, British economist, economic adviser to the Government of India from 1938 to 1946 Frank Hahn, economist David Forbes Hendry, British economist, currently professor of economics and head of the Economics Department at the University of Oxford J.A. Hobson, economist and writer Samuel Hollander, British/Canadian/Israeli economist Eliot Janeway, American economist, economic advisor to Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson Harry Johnson, Canadian economist Lewis Webster Jones, economist, fifteenth President of Rutgers University Nicholas Kaldor, economist Peter Kenen, economist Maurice Kugler, development economist Ludwig Lachmann, economist David Laidler, economist Richard Layard, Baron Layard, economist Peter Leeson, George Mason Economist Patrick Minford, economist Michio Morishima, Japanese economist Abhinay Muthoo, economist Andrew Oswald, economist Maurice Peston, Baron Peston of Mile End, economist and politician Peter C. B. Phillips, Sterling Professor of Economics and Professor of