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Keith Boyfield is a well-known consultant economist who advises a range of multinational businesses, international trade associations and NGOs. He has written and consulted extensively on competition and regulation policy as well as privatisation and direct inward investment by private equity firms.

He has acted as a consultant to a wide range of major companies and organisations in the UK and globally including Aon, BNFL plc,,  KPMG, Seagram’s and Thomson Reuters plc.  He has also advised a range of international bodies, major financial institutions and trade bodies including the Advertising Association, the Association of Consulting Actuaries (ACA), the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA), the Chartered Institute of Marketing, the Commonwealth Business Council and the Swiss Bankers’ Association.

Keith has served as a consultant to the European Commission’s Competition and Energy & Transport Directorates and he was recently reappointed as a Member of Postcomm’s Advisors Framework Panel, the statutory regulator for postal services in the United Kingdom.

He has written numerous studies for several leading think-tanks, including the Adam Smith Institute, the Centre for Policy Studies, the European Policy Forum,  and the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) where he is a Member of the Editorial Board of Economic Affairs, the IEA’s quarterly journal.

Keith was awarded a Fellowship of the Chartered Institute of Marketing in 2003, the world's largest professional body for marketing, for whom he has also acted as a consultant.

Keith is a regular contributor to the press, television and radio, notably the BBC. He appears frequently on the British and overseas media and for more than a decade he has been a regular commentator on Aljazeera’s worldwide Arab language service. He has written for The Wall Street Journal Europe,  The Financial Times,  The Daily Telegraph and The Independent. He also contributes to a number of specialist journals and magazines, most notably Acquisitions Monthly, The Financial Regulator, Finance Dublin, Financial Centres International, The Journal of World Economics and Utility Week. His study of the rapidly changing relationship between the banking and insurance sectors - Global Insurance and the Capital Markets - was published in April 2008 by International Financing Review (IFR) Marketing Intelligence, a division of Thomson Reuters.

Keith is the Africa Editor of the Journal of World Economics and edited the recent special issue on Africa (www.worldeconomics.com). He also acted as rapporteur for the African Banking Roundtable for Central Bank Governors held in Washington DC in September 2011, sponsored by the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Commonwealth Business Council.

In 2009 he became a director of Leriba Ltd, a pan-African business intelligence consultancy (see www.leribarisk.com). He currently acts as Leriba’s Chief Economist.

Keith was educated at the London School of Economics

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