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{{Short description|British economist}}
{{about|the British economist|other people with similar names|John Vickers (disambiguation)}}
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'''Sir John Stuart Vickers''' (born 7 July 1958)<ref>{{cite news  | title = Birthdays | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | pages = 31 | publisher = Guardian Media | date = 7 July 2014 }}</ref> is a British economist and the [[List of Wardens of All Souls College, Oxford|Warden of All Souls College, Oxford]].

==Education==
Vickers studied at Eastbourne Grammar School and [[Oriel College, Oxford]]. He graduated with a [[Doctor of Philosophy|DPhil]] from the [[University of Oxford]].

==Career==

After starting a profession in the oil industry, Vickers left and began teaching economics at [[Oxford University]]. From 1991 to 2008, Vickers was the [[Drummond Professor of Political Economy]]. In 2008, Sir John Vickers was elected as [[List of Wardens of All Souls College, Oxford|Warden]] of [[All Souls College, Oxford]]. His visiting academic posts have included the [[London Business School]], the [[Woodrow Wilson School]] at [[Princeton University]], and [[Harvard Kennedy School]] at [[Harvard University]]. From 2003 until 2007, Vickers was President of the [[Institute for Fiscal Studies]] and then became President for the [[Royal Economic Society]] from 2007 to 2010.

In 1998, Vickers became chief economist at the [[Bank of England]] for two years. He was also notably a member of the [[Monetary Policy Committee (United Kingdom)|Monetary Policy Committee]]. From 2000 to 2005, he became the chairman of the [[Office of Fair Trading]].

In June 2010, Vickers became chair of the [[Independent Commission on Banking]] (ICB) founded in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_11_10.htm |title=Sir John Vickers to Chair the Independent Commission on Banking |publisher=HM Treasury |date=2010-06-16 |access-date=2011-09-12}}</ref> The ICB's task is to consider both structural and non-structural reforms to the UK banking sector to promote financial stability and competition (in the aftermath of the banking crisis of 2008). The commission made its final recommendations to the UK government in September 2011, namely the introduction of the ring fencing of retail from investment banking in order to protect against financial riskiness.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14877865|title= Banks face major reorganisation|publisher= BBC|work= BBC News|date= 12 December 2011|access-date= 12 September 2011}}</ref>

===Research and publications===
Vickers has written on a number of varying economic topics. His current economic research focuses on competition and regulation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/staff/vickers/ |title=Oxford University, Department of Economics &#124; John Vickers |publisher=Economics.ox.ac.uk |access-date=2011-09-12 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110926211638/http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/index.php/staff/vickers/ |archive-date=2011-09-26 }}</ref>

==Honours==
Vickers was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in 2005.

In 2012, he was awarded the [[President's Medal (British Academy)|President's Medal]] by the [[British Academy]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The British Academy President's Medal|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/british-academy-presidents-medal|website=British Academy|access-date=23 July 2017}}</ref>

He was made a [[List of Fellows of the Royal Economic Society|Fellow]] of the [[Royal Economic Society]] in May 2025.<ref>https://res.org.uk/the-royal-economic-society-announces-founding-fellows/</ref>

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