Geoffrey L Bell, (born 1939), is an economist, banker, and Executive Secretary of the Washington based Group of Thirty, an influential and high powered council of private and central bankers.Born in Grimsby, he was educated at the London School of Economics, before working at Her Majesty's Treasury, and later returning to the LSE to lecture on monetary economics in 1964.Between 1966 and 1969, he served as economic advisor to the British Embassy in Washington, then joined the Schroders Bank, as assistant to the Chairman, Gordon Richardson, later Bank of England Governor.