Peter Allen was appointed Managing Director of Lombard Street Research in September 2004. He has a background in global finance with extensive experience in business development, financial journalism and both web and print publishing. In 2002, he founded CreditWrap magazine and was its CEO for 2 years. Previous appointments have included Publisher of Euromoney Institutional Investor, Managing Director of Business Development at Internet Securities, Vice President of the Royal Bank of Canada Global Markets and Director of RBC Dominion Securities International. 

Brian Reading founded the World Service at Lombard Street Research in 1991 together with Gabriel Stein. He was economics advisor to the former Prime Minister Edward Heath and was the first Economics Editor of the Economist magazine, before moving into consultancy in the late1970s. He has published thousands of newspaper articles and has written two books on Japan, one of which Japan The Coming Collapse, is regarded as the seminal work on the subject. Brian now works with us from his base in New Zealand and embarks on worldwide trips to visit clients. He has his own diary within our website entitled "Required Reading" where he makes regular comment on topical issues.

Charles Dumas has extensive experience as a business economist and financial markets professional. In the 1980s he was Head of Research for JP Morgan in London. In the mid-to-late 1970s he was Director of European Economics for General Motors. Before that he worked on tax reform for the Conservative Party and the UK Government. He was a Managing Director in JP Morgan's New York M&A department from 1988 to 1992 and has worked in its capital markets group in New York and London. Charles's work covers all international economies and his particular focus is the US and China. He wrote his first book, The Bill from the China Shop, in 2006, together with Diana Choyleva. The follow up China and America - A Time of Reckoning, was published in Spring 2008.

Gabriel Stein graduated from the Stockholm School of Economics with an MSc in 1980. In 1981 he worked for the International Relations Department of the Israeli Ministry of Finance. From 1982 to 1991 he ran his own economics and public affairs consultancy, Stein Brothers, first in Stockholm and from 1990 in London. He joined Lombard Street Research in 1991 and together with Brian Reading set up the World Service. He became a director in 1995. On behalf of the Adam Smith Institute he calculates Tax Freedom Day for the UK. He has written a dictionary of economic and financial terms and a short biography of Vilfredo Pareto. His research follows all global trends and his current areas of specialisation are the Eurozone, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Mexico, Australia and also the US.

Diana Choyleva joined the World Service at Lombard Street Research in 2000 after graduating with a Master's degree in Economics at the University of Warwick. She was promoted to Head of the UK Service in February 2005. Diana's work covers global issues, with a particular focus on the UK and Chinese economies. In February 2006 she published her first book "The Bill from the China Shop", co-authored with Charles Dumas. She has also specialized in research on Japan and Russia and her work on estimating potential output and output gaps is the basis for producing LSR's proprietary global leading indicators. Diana's research has been extensively quoted in the international press and she gives regular TV and radio interviews.

Nick Bourne graduated from the University of Liverpool in 1996 with a degree in Politics and Philosophy. Before joining Lombard Street Research his took his first job at BankStat, a division of Institutional Investor. He joined Lombard Street Research in 1998 as a member of the newly formed marketing team, increasing client base and turnover by over a third within 4 years. Nick worked for a brief spell at our New York office in 1999 and moved back to the UK in 2000 where he took up his role as Marketing Manager. He was invited to join the board of directors in February 2005. Nick is a music enthusiast and an avid supporter of Ipswich Town football club.

Chris Turner joined Lombard Street Research in June 2006 as Head of Strategy. He has extensive experience as an investment strategist and portfolio manager, spanning currency, equity and fixed income markets. His work concentrates on developing and monitoring investment strategies based on themes within our economic research. He spent twenty years in financial markets on both the buy and sell side, including six years at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers as a manager of global equity and tactical asset allocation portfolios and a further three years co-founding and running a global macro hedge fund. Between 1989 and 1997 he worked for Barclays de Zoete Wedd, spending three years in Tokyo as Senior Money and Bond Market Economist and then five years in London as Chief Currency Strategist, when he appeared in the top 3 of the annual Thomson Extel Survey for 4 consecutive years. Chris has a BA in Economics from Cambridge University and began his career as an economist with the Bank of England.

Professor Pepper was a joint founder of the gilt-edged business of W.Greenwell & Co. during which time he introduced Greenwell's Monetary Bulletin, one of the most widely read UK monetary economics publications of the 1970s and 1980s. He was joint senior partner and later Chairman of Greenwell Montagu. He is an Honorary Visiting Professor at CASS Business School, a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and the UK Society of Investment Professionals. He has been a Member of the Economic and Social Research Council and is the author of several books on monetary economics in the UK.