Education
Hopkin was educated at Barry Grammar School and Street John"s College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes.
Hopkin was educated at Barry Grammar School and Street John"s College, Cambridge, where he was a student of John Maynard Keynes.
He was chief economic adviser to the Treasury during the tenure of Denis Healey as Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 1941, during the Second World War, Hopkin was working as a civil servant at the Ministry of Health when selected by Winston Churchill to be part of the government"s statistical team He was knighted in 1971 and became Professor of Economics at Cardiff University the following year.
Remaining a Keynesian, he was appointed head of the Government Economic Service in 1973, and served as an adviser in succession to Healey, Iain Macleod, and Anthony Barber, later emerging as a stern critic of Margaret Thatcher"s economic policy.