Date: Thursday 7 May 2026 Time: 6.00-7.30pm BST
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE (map)
Speaker: Isabel Schnabel (European Central Bank)
Chair: Martin Oehmke (LSE Finance & Financial Markets Group)
Isabel Schnabel will deliver the Fifth Annual Charles Goodhart Lecture.
Event hashtag: #LSEGoodhart
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Biographies
Isabel Schnabel has been a Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) since 2020 where she is responsible for Market Operations, Research and Statistics. She is currently on leave from the University of Bonn, where she has been Professor of Financial Economics since 2015. From 2014 to 2019 she served as a member of the German Council of Economic Experts. She also served as Co-Chair of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts and Vice Chair of the Advisory Scientific Committee (ASC) of the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB). Isabel Schnabel studied economics at the Universities of Mannheim, Paris (Sorbonne) and Berkeley. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Mannheim. Her research focuses on financial stability, banking regulation, central banking, international capital flows and economic history.
Martin Oehmke is Professor of Finance at LSE. Martin received his PhD in Economics from Princeton in 2009. Before joining LSE in 2015, he was the Roger F. Murray Associate Professor of Finance at Columbia Business School. He serves on the advisory scientific committee of the European Systemic Risk Board. His research interests are sustainable finance, financial regulation and corporate finance and banking.
The Lecture Series in Honour of Charles Goodhart was set up in 2022 to honour Charles Goodhart, eminent economist and Emeritus Professor at LSE. Charles was instrumental in the founding of the Financial Markets Group more than 35 years ago.
Charles Goodhart was appointed to the Norman Sosnow Chair of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics (LSE) in 1985, until his retirement in 2002 when he became Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990, and awarded the CBE in 1997, for services to monetary economics.
During 1986, he helped to establish the Financial Markets Group at LSE. For the previous 17 years he served as a monetary economist at the Bank of England, becoming a Chief Adviser in 1980. Following his advice on overcoming the financial crisis in Hong Kong in 1983, he subsequently served on the HK Exchange Fund Advisory Committee until 1997. The same year he was appointed one of the four independent outside members of the newly-formed Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee. He became an economic consultant to Morgan Stanley in 2009, until he resigned, at the age of 80, in 2016.
Charles has written widely on matters relating to monetary policy, especially central banking, and macro-economics. He is the author of Goodhart's Law "that any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.”
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