Jan Toporowski

Jan Toporowski is a Visiting Professor of Economics in the Department of International Development at King's College London. He recently retired from the position of Professor of Economics and Finance at SOAS University of London, where he taught for many years.

His research is concentrated on monetary theory and policy, finance, macroeconomics and development economics. He is literary executor to the economist Michał Kalecki (1899-1970) and a member of the Council of the Progressive Economy Forum. Jan has published two volumes of biography of Michał Kalecki and over 350 books, articles and papers on economics and finance.

Before becoming an academic, he worked in fund management and international banking. He has been a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the UN Economic Commission for Africa and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Jan has held visiting positions at the University of Cambridge and the Bank of Finland. He has taught at Meiji University, Tokyo, the University of Bergamo, Italy, and International University College in Turin. He studied economics at Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Birmingham, UK.