John Calverley is Chief Economist and Strategist at American Express Bank, responsible for providing fundamental economic input to the Banks Treasury, Asset Management and Credit functions world-wide as well as to senior management. He edits the Banks suite of publications on economic and market trends, Economics for Investment. He also writes for various journals and magazines and appears frequently on CNN, CNBC, BBC and other TV stations. He is currently Chairman of the Society of Business Economists. He was educated at the universities of Cambridge and Washington and is the author of Economics for Investors (Probus, 1995) and Country Risk Analysis (Butterworths, 1990).