Richard David Portes CBE is a professor of Economics and an Academic Director of the AQR Asset Management Institute at London Business School.

[2] He also serves as Directeur d'Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.

[4] In 1999–2000, he was the Distinguished Global Visiting Professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, and in 2003–04 he was Joel Stern Visiting Professor of International Finance at Columbia Business School.

He was the longest serving Secretary-General of the Royal Economic Society (1992–2008) since John Maynard Keynes.

[9][10] His work on collective action clauses in sovereign bond contracts, on the international role of the euro, on international financial stability and on European bond markets has been directed towards policy as well as academic publications.