Background

William James Gregory Keegan was born on July 3, 1938 in London, United Kingdom. His parents were William P. Keegan and Sheila Julia (Buckley) Keegan. William Keegan has a brother Victor Keegan, also a journalist and author.

Education

William Keegan was educated at Wimbledon College and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in 1963. He completed his national service in the Royal Tank Regiment from 1957 to 1959.

Career

William Keegan became a journalist for the Financial Times in 1963, moving to the Daily Mail in 1964, then returning to the Financial Times as an economics correspondent for 9 years in 1967.

He then worked in the Bank of England Economics Intelligence Department as an assistant to governor from 1976 to 1977.

William Keegan was an economics editor of The Observer from 1977 to 2003, and continues to contribute to the paper as Observer's senior economics commentator. There he also worked as an assistant editor and business editor during 1981-1983, and from 1983 - as an associate editor.

Additionally, in 1989 Keegan became a visiting professor of journalism at the University of Sheffield, and in 2012 a visiting professor of economics at Queen Mary University of London. He is also a visiting professor at The Policy Institute, King's College London, and is also involved in The Strand Group seminar series there.

Moreover, during his career, Keegan has authored two fiction books, in 1974 and 1976, and eight economics and politics books, between 1978 and 2012.

As of 2019, William Keegan is a columnist for The Observer (now part of The Guardian).

Achievements

• William Keegan received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for services to journalism in 2009.
  
  

Works

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  • Nine Crises: Fifty Years of Covering the British Economy from Devaluation to Brexit

    (Peppered with anecdotes and memories from the author's il...)

    2019
  • Mr Osborne's Economic Experiment

    (In his book "Mrs Thatcher's Economic Experiment" William ...)

    2014
  • "Saving the World?" Gordon Brown Reconsidered

    (A book that expressed some unfashionable concerns about t...)

    2012
  • The Prudence of Mr. Gordon Brown

    (A compelling book that examines Gordon Brown's rise to po...)

    2003
  • Consulting Father Wintergreen 1974
  • Who Runs the Economy? 1979
  • 2066 and All That: Britain and Europe Sort it Out 2000
  • Mrs. Thatcher's economic experiment 1983
  • A Real Killing 1977
  • Mr. Lawson's Gamble 1989
  • Britain Without Oil 1985
  • The Spectre of Capitalism 1992
  • Six Days in September: Black Wednesday, Brexit and the Making of Europe 2017

Membership

William Keegan has sat on a number of committees and advisory boards. Beginning in 1981 he was on the British Broadcasting Corporation Advisory Committee on Business and Industrial affairs. From 1987 he was a council member of the Employment Institute. From 1988 to 1992 Keegan was a member of the advisory board of Cambridge University Department of Applied Economics. Besides, he was a member of the Committee for Social Sciences, CNNA in 1991-1992.

• British Broadcasting Corporation , United Kingdom

  1981 - 1988

• Employment Institute , United Kingdom

  1987

• Cambridge University Department of Applied Economics , United Kingdom

  1988 - 1992

Connections

William Keegan married Tessa Ashton on February 7, 1967, but the couple divorced in 1982. In 1992 Keegan married Hilary Stonefrost, a barrister. They currently live in Islington, London.

Keegan has seven children, including four from the first marriage - Clemency, Benedicta, Harry, and Bartholomew.

Father:

William P. Keegan

Mother:

Sheila Julia (Buckley) Keegan

Spouse:

Hilary Stonefrost

Brother:

Victor Keegan

William's brother Victor Keegan is a journalist at The Guardian.

ex-spouse:

Tessa Ashton

Daughter:

Clemency Keegan

Daughter:

Benedicta Keegan

Son:

Harry Keegan

Son:

Bartholomew Keegan

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series
• William Keegan - Twitter