Dr Juan Castaneda is Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Buckingham and Director of the Institute of International Monetary Research. He has been a visiting researcher at Cass Business School in London, and lecturer at UNED University in Madrid. He is the review editor of Economic Affairs and the editor and author of a website specialising in monetary policy and central banking. Since September 2018 Juan has also been a member of the Institute of Economic Affairs’ Shadow Monetary Policy Committee.