The Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Philip Booth as Academic Advisor and Senior Research Fellow. He was previously an Associate Fellow. As part of his new role, he will be working for CEME one day a week.

Philip Booth is professor of Catholic Social Thought and Public Policy at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham (the U.K.’s largest Catholic university) and Director of Policy and Research at the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales. He is also Senior Research Fellow and Academic Advisor to the Centre for Enterprise, Markets and Ethics.

Previously, Philip was academic and research director at the Institute of Economic Affairs from 2002 to 2016 and senior academic fellow there from 2016 to 2021. He has worked for the Bank of England and as associate dean of Bayes (formerly Cass) Business School. He held the positions of Director of Research and Public Engagement; Dean of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences; and Director of Catholic Mission at St. Mary’s.

Philip has written widely on investment, finance, social insurance, and pensions, as well as on the relationship between Catholic social teaching and economics. He curates the website: www.catholicsocialthought.org.uk.

His books include Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy; Catholic Social Thought the Market and Public Policy; The Road to Economic Freedom; Verdict on the Crash; and Christian Perspectives on the Financial Crash.

He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries, and an honorary member of the Society of Actuaries of Poland.

He has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Durham and a Ph.D. in Real Estate Finance from City University.