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20 January 2026
The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) has appointed Professor Juan Castañeda to its board of trustees.
Professor Castañeda is Director of the Vinson Centre for the Public Understanding of Economics and Entrepreneurship and Professor of Economics at the University of Buckingham, where he has lectured since 2012. He holds a doctorate in Economics from the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and brings more than two decades of academic and research experience in monetary policy and central banking.
He served as Director of the Institute of International Monetary Research from 2016 to 2023 and has held visiting positions at Cass Business School, the Cato Institute’s Centre for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Hesperides University in Spain, and Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. He has also collaborated with the European Parliament’s Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs.
Professor Castañeda is a longstanding member of the IEA community. Since 2018 he has served on the IEA’s Shadow Monetary Policy Committee and is a member of the IEA’s Academic Advisory Council. He is also Review Editor and Deputy Editor of the Economic Affairs, the IEA’s peer-reviewed publication.
Professor Castañeda is taking the board seat vacated by Professor Martin Ricketts who retired from the board after a brilliant thirty-three years of service, and the whole of the IEA board of trustees and wider team thank him for everything he contributed to the organisation in that time. Professor Castañeda’s appointment represents a continuity in the relationship between the IEA and the University of Buckingham as represented by the joint collaboration in the Vinson Centre.
Professor Juan Castañeda said:
‘It is an honour to join the board of trustees of the Institute of Economic Affairs. I have admired the IEA since I was an Economics student, reading its publications rooted in Classical Liberalism, and later on in my academic career I have had the opportunity to contribute to its agenda. We seem to have forgotten how we achieved the levels of growth and prosperity we have enjoyed over the last two centuries. It is the expansion of the markets and free enterprise what leads to greater economic growth and prosperity over the long term. The values the IEA stands for couldn’t be more needed today, and I am looking forward to working with Linda Edwards, my fellow board members and the staff in furthering the mission of the IEA.’
Linda Edwards, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Economic Affairs, said:
“We are delighted to welcome Juan to the board. He brings deep expertise in monetary economics and central banking at a time when those questions are central to the UK’s economic prospects. His long association with the IEA — through the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee, the Academic Advisory Council, and the Journal of Economic Affairs — means he arrives with a thorough understanding of our mission and values. We look forward to the contribution he will make at this exciting time for the IEA.”
“We also want to extend a warm and heartfelt thank you to Professor Martin Ricketts for his exceptional length of service and contribution to the IEA. He is intellect and belief in the ideas that the IEA was founded on have been vital to the work of the Institute, our partners at the University of Buckingham, and beyond. He will always be a part of the wider IEA family”
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