Professor Roy Batchelor

About

Overview

Roy Batchelor is Professor Emeritus in Political Economy and Statistics in Bayes Business School (formerly Cass), City, University of London.

A graduate of Glasgow University, Roy worked as a government scientist and economist; then at the UK National Institute of Economic and Social Research, forecasting and analysing the UK economy, and writing on world trade and industrialisation; at a leading firm of London stockbrokers, where he tried to forecast the stock market; and at the London International Financial Futures Exchange where he ran training courses for traders and hedgers. He joined the newly established Department of Banking and International Finance at City University in 1977, and has since been active there in research, teaching and academic administration, this including spells as Head of Department, Director of the Bayes (formerly Cass) Executive MBA programme in Dubai, and of the Executive MBA in London.

Professor Batchelor’s research focuses on economic and financial market forecasting, the interpretation and use of consumer and business survey data, rationality and behavioural finance. He has published widely in these fields, including journals such as Management Science, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Econometrics, and the Journal of Economic Psychology. And most frequently the International Journal of Forecasting, where he has acted as Associate Editor, and currently is an editor of its sister practitioner journal, Foresight. He is co-author, with Professor Pami Dua, of Financial Forecasting (Edward Elgar, 2004). In 2008 Professor Batchelor was elected Honorary Fellow of the International Institute of Forecasters, and he has since served as an elected Director of the IIF. He continues to be active in conference organisation, and networks of forecasters, across many applications ranging from sales and inventory control, through macroeconomics, climate science, demographics and epidemiology, to sabermetrics and beyond.

His research and business experience has been transferred into the classroom at City, where over the years he has taught many highly rated courses at MSc and MBA levels, covering Financial Markets, Technical Analysis and Trading, Business and Financial Forecasting, and the core Business in the Global Economy module on Bayes MBA programmes.

In parallel with his academic work, Professor Batchelor has been active in professional training and consultancy, conducting seminars on technical innovations in economics and finance for professional audiences in London, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Dubai, Mumbai, and other international financial centres. He has held visiting appointments at the Delhi School of Economics, Purdue University, the University of Connecticut, the Stockholm School of Economics, ESCP Paris, and is a Fellow and Research Professor at the ifo Institute in Munich.

Professor Batchelor has acted as economic adviser to stockbrokers Smith New Court, LIFFE, the World Gold Council, leading market research company Canadean, and undertaken consultancy projects for many other commercial organisations. He has given expert legal evidence in cases relating to the quality of financial forecasting and trading systems; conducted research for Chatham House, the European Commission, and the UK Treasury; prepared invited submissions for Parliamentary Committees; and served on the Bank of England's Panel of Academic Consultants.

Qualifications

• MA (Glasgow)

Expertise

Primary topics

• Econometric & Statistical Methods
• Economics
• Financial Econometrics
• Financial Economics
• Financial Markets
• Macroeconomics
• Quantitative Finance

Industries

• banking
• consumer goods
• gambling

Geographic Areas

• Europe
• Middle East
• Africa
• Americas - North

Publications