David Anthony Vines (born 8 May 1949),[1] is an Australian economist teaching at Oxford University.
He is also an adjunct professor in the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis at the Australian National University, a research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and scientific coordinator of the European Union Framework Seven PEGGED Research Programme on the Politics and Economics of Global Governance: the European Dimension.
He formerly held the Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy at the University of Glasgow and in 2002 was a Houblon-Norman Senior Fellow at the Bank of England.
At Cambridge, Vines worked with Nobel Prize-winning economist, James Meade, who was deeply influenced by John Maynard Keynes.
He was born in Oxford, in 1949, when his Australian father was a research student in chemistry at Lincoln College.