Professor Philip Booth

About

Philip Booth is Professor of Finance, Public Policy and Ethics at St. Mary’s University, Twickenham where he is also Dean of the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Social Sciences. He was previously Director of Research and Public Engagement at St. Mary’s.
From 2002-2016, Philip was Academic and Research Director (previously, Editorial and Programme Director) at the Institute of Economic Affairs and is now their Senior Academic Fellow.
From 2002-2015 he was Professor of Insurance and Risk Management at Cass Business School.
Philip is also an Adjunct Professor at the School of Law, University of Notre Dame, Australia. 
Previously, Philip Booth worked for the Bank of England as an adviser on financial stability issues and he was also Associate Dean of Cass Business School and held various other academic positions at City University.
Philip is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries and an honorary member of the Society of Actuaries of Poland.
He has previously worked in the investment department of Axa Equity and Law and was been involved in a number of projects to help develop actuarial professions and actuarial, finance and investment professional teaching programmes in Central and Eastern Europe.
Philip has a BA in Economics from the University of Durham and a PhD from City University. 
He has written widely, including a number of books, on investment, finance, social insurance and pensions as well as on the relationship between Catholic social teaching and economics.
Selected recent publications include: Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy; with Matias Petersen, Catholic social teaching and Hayek’s critique of social justice in Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, 23 (1); Capitalism and Social Co-operation in Crucible – The Journal of Christian Social Ethics; Property Rights and Conservation – the missing theme of Laudato si’ in the Independent Review, 21 (3); and, on federalism, Federal Britain – the case for decentralisation.
Philip Booth is also editor of the Catholic social thought blog.