Rupert Lascelles Pennant-Rea (born 23 January 1948) is a British businessman, journalist, and former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
The son of Peter Athelwold and Pauline Pennant-Rea, he was educated at the Peterhouse Boys' School, an Anglican church boarding school in Zimbabwe before attending Trinity College, Dublin,[1] and Manchester University,[1] where he received his MA degree.
[2] Pennant-Rea joined the Bank of England in 1973 and remained until 1977, when he left to work for The Economist magazine.
[12] Since retiring from Royal London in 2019, Pennant-Rea has been an angel investors and board member of start-ups related to greenhouse gases reduction such as Cloud-Cycle [2] .
He was a trustee of Speakers Trust,[14] the UK's leading public-speaking training charity and Chairman of the Shakespeare Schools Festival.