Sir Derek James Morris (born 23 December 1945) is former chairman of the

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(formerly the

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) and was the

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until

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replaced him in 2013. Morris was educated at

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, studied PPE at

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and then took a D.Phil. in Economics at

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before taking up a Research Fellowship at the Centre for Business and Industrial Studies at

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. From 1970 until 1998 he was Fellow and Tutor in Economics at Oriel. This included three years on secondment as Economic Director of the

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. From 1984 to 1998 he was Chairman of

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Ltd, and is currently a governor of the

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. He joined the Monopolies Commission in 1991, becoming chairman in 1998. He has published widely on economic topics, most recently on economic reform in Chinese enterprises. In addition, he has acted as adviser to the

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on enterprise reform in Central Asia. He was

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in the

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. In 2004, he was named to head a government-sponsored review into the

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profession in the United Kingdom, known as the Morris Review. From 2007 to 2013 he was a member of the Committee for Standards in Public Life (formerly the Nolan committee); from 2006 to 2016 the chairman of the Trustees of the Oxford University Pension Fund; and is now chairman of The Cheviot Trust (a not-for-profit, multi-employer pension scheme); from 2006 to 2013 a non-executive director of Lucida plc (an insurance company which specialises in buying out large scale pension funds) and then its chairman. While at Oriel he was chairman of Oxford University's College Contributions Committee (which recommends redistribution of resources from colleges with high endowment to those with low endowment); and chairman of the Advisory Board for the Centre for Business Taxation at Oxford University. He is currently also a senior economic advisor th Frontier Economics, and under the auspices of the Cairncross Foundation, lead advisor to the Chinese Government on economic reform. His first novel, 'Pawn's Gambit' (under the pseudonym Harry Armstrong) was shortlisted for 'Political Thriller of the Year'.

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* 1945 births Living people Fellows of Oriel College, Oxford Provosts of Oriel College, Oxford Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Knights Bachelor Academics of the University of Warwick People educated at Harrow High School Member of the Committee on Standards in Public Life {{UK-economist-stub