Andrew Shonfield

Andrew Shonfield    (journalist, editor, economist)
Born	10 August 1917 Tadworth, Surrey, England
Died	23 January 1981 (Age 63) London, England
Nationality	UK
Alma mater	St Paul's School (London), Magdalen College (Oxford)
Religion	Jewish
Children	Katherine Shonfield
Spouse	Zuzanna Shonfield
Member of	Trilateral Commission
Interests	capitalism
Party	Labour
UK pro-EEC economist and editor  Professor of Economics In office 1978 - 1981 Employer European University Institute Attended Bilderberg/1968. Trilateral Commission. Director of RUSI  Royal United Services Institute/Director In office 1972 - 1977 Attended Bilderberg/1968. Later Trilateral Commission.  Director of Studies In office 1961 - 1968 Employer Labour Party Attended Bilderberg/1968.Later Trilateral Commission, Director of RUSI.  Foreign Editor In office 1950 - 1958 Employer Financial Times Attended Bilderberg/1968. Later Trilateral Commission, Director of RUSI.

Sir Andrew Akiba Shonfield was a British economist best known for writing Modern Capitalism (1966), a book that documented the rise of long-term planning in postwar Europe. He attended the 1968 Bilderberg meeting.

Shonfield's argument that planning allows public authority to control and direct private enterprise without taking ownership of it as the socialists proposed have made him one of the better-known advocates of a mixed economy.

Education

He graduated from Oxford University and serving as an artillery officer in World War II.

Career

Shonfield worked as a journalist. He was the foreign editor of The Financial Times from 1950 until 1958, then worked as The Observer's economic editor.

He was close to the Labour Party and served first as Director of Studies (1961–68) and then as Director (1972–77) of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, usually known as Chatham House. He was a member of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations (the Donovan Commission) which reported in 1968. He headed the Social Science Research Council (now ESRC) between 1969 and 1971.

In 1972, he lectured on the consequences of Britain's entry in the European Community in the BBC's Reith Lectures.

During the final three years of his life he was Professor of Economics at the European University Institute in Florence, a study center financed by the European Economic Community.

In 1970 he was elected a fellow of Imperial College London. He was knighted in the 1978 New Year Honours.

Death

His obituary in the New York Times did not mention the cause of death.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1968	26 April 1968	28 April 1968	Canada Mont Tremblant	The 17th Bilderberg and the 2nd in Canada

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