{{Short description|British economist}} {{about||the American author|Christopher Dow (author)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2017}} {{Use British English|date=June 2017}}
'''John Christopher Roderick Dow''', FBA (1916–1998) was a British applied economist whose career ran from 1945 until his death in 1998.
He was educated at Bootham School,<ref>{{cite book|title=Bootham School Register|place=York, England<!--|publisher=Bootham Old Scholars Association -->|publisher=BOSA|first=Jenny | last=Woodland |year=2011}}</ref> York and University College London.
During his career he worked in some of the major British economic institutions, serving as Senior Economic Adviser to the UK Treasury, deputy director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, Assistant Secretary General of the OECD, and as executive director of the Bank of England. Dow's achievements as an economist were recognized with the award of a Fellowship of the British Academy (1982).<ref>McMahon, Kit (1998) Obituary: Christopher Dow, Friday, 4 December 1998, The Independent</ref>
== Major publications == *''Major Recessions: Britain and the World, 1920-1995'' (Oxford, 1999, {{ISBN|9780199241231}} {{ISBN|0199241236}}), published posthumously *''Inside the Bank of England: Memoirs of Christopher Dow''
== References == {{Reflist}}
== Additional sources == Dow, J. C. R., Graham Hacche, and C. T. Taylor. (2012). ''Inside the Bank of England memoirs of Christopher Dow, Chief Economist, 1973-84''. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dow, Christopher}} Category:People educated at Brighton, Hove and Sussex Grammar School Category:1916 births Category:1998 deaths Category:People educated at Bootham School Category:20th-century British economists Category:Fellows of the British Academy
{{UK-economist-stub}}