David T. Llewellyn is Professor of Money and Banking at Loughborough University, and Honorary Visiting Professor at the CASS Business School in London; External Member, Centre for Cooperative Studies, Kellogg College, University of Oxford; Associate Senior Research Fellow, at the Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels). In March 2011 he was appointed a member of the Banking Stakeholder Group of the European Banking Authority, and elected as Vice Chairman in July. He was re-appointed in 2014 and elected Chairman. He has recently been working with several central banks on aspects of the global financial crisis and Resolution strategies. His recent research includes a project at the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels on the economics and role of European cooperative banks, and a second project at the CEPS for the European Parliament on trends in European banking. Previous career appointments include serving as an economist at Unilever (Rotterdam), HM Treasury (London), and the International Monetary Fund (Washington). Between 1994 and 2002 he was a Public Interest Director of the Personal Investment Authority (the UK regulator of retail financial services until it was superseded by the FSA). He has served as a consultant to financial firms, management consultancy firms, and regulatory agencies in several countries including South Africa where, in 2004, he was appointed by the Minister of Finance to be a member of a Task Group to investigate competition in the South African Banking industry.