Paul Tucker writes at the intersection of political economy and political theory, authoring Global Discord (Princeton University Press, 2022) and Unelected Power (PUP, 2018). Since late-2013 he has been a fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. His other activities include being a senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; president of the UK’s National Institute for Economic and Social Research; a director at Swiss Re; and a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation. Prior to that, he was a central banker for over thirty years at the Bank of England and Basel, where he was a member of the steering committee of the G20 Financial Stability Board, and a member of the board of the Bank for International Settlements. After leaving office, he chaired the transatlantic Systemic Risk Council from 2016 to mid-2021, and has continued to write on monetary policy and crisis management.