David Llewellyn is Professor of Money and Banking at Loughborough University, Visiting Professor at the CASS Business School (London), the IESE Business School (Madrid) and the Swiss Finance Institute (Zurich) and is Consultant Economist to ICAP plc. Between 2000 and 2006 he was President of SUERF: The European Money and Finance Forum which is a network association of central banks, banks, other financial practitioners and academics with its permanent secretariat located at the Austrian Central Bank in Vienna. He is a member of an international advisory group of the International Monetary Fund with respect to governance arrangements in financial regulatory and supervisory agencies, is a member of the Expert Banking Group at Bank Indonesia, and a Board member of the Italian Bankers Association (Rome). His previous career includes appointments as an Economist at Unilever NV (Rotterdam), HM Treasury (London) and the International Monetary Fund (Washington). In recent years he has served as a consultant to the IMF, World Bank and regulatory agencies and financial institutions in several countries. For several years he was a Public Interest Director of the Personal investment Authority and the PIA Ombudsman Bureau. In 2003 he was appointed by the Minister of Finance in South Africa to serve on a Task Group to investigate competition and profitability in the South African banking sector. He has also been a consultant to the South African Reserve Bank and regulatory agencies in South Africa. In 2004 he was commissioned by HM Treasury to write a paper on corporate governance in the financial sector in connection with the Myners enquiry.  

David Llewellyn has researched and written extensively in the area of retail financial services, international banking and finance, the structure and evolution of financial systems, competition in the financial sector, the financial sector in emerging market economies, and in the theory and practice of financial regulation.