About
Oliver joined the University of Southampton in 2025 as Professor of Economics.
Prior to this he was Head of Economics at the University of Liverpool Management School (2019-25); a Principal Economist in the Monetary Analysis Division of the European Central Bank (2017-19); an Assistant Professor at the University of St Andrews (2015-17); an Economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (2012-15); the Mead Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge (2010-12); and a Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs (2008-9).
In addition he has worked with many other international organizations in various capacities over the years: a Senior George Research Fellow at the Bank of England (2024-25); a Research Fellow at the Cental Bank of Ireland (2025), National Bank of Poland (2019), and Bank of Finland (2017); a Consultant to the Bank of Korea (2024), IMF (2022-23), National Bank of Kazakhstan (2022-23), and ECB (2019-20).
He received his PhD, MPhil, and MA from the University of Cambridge.
His research interests are in the fields of Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Macro-Finance, Asset Pricing and Computational Economics. His research has been published in some of the top journals in the profession, including Econometrica, the Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics, the Journal of Monetary Economics, and Quantitative Economics, among others.