Robert Skidelsky

The Right Honourable The Lord Skidelsky FBA
Official portrait, 2024
Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
Incumbent
Assumed office 15 July 1991 Life Peerage
Personal details
Born	Robert Jacob Alexander (1939-04-25) 25 April 1939 (age 85) Harbin, Republic of China
Nationality	British
Political party	None (Crossbench)
Other political affiliations	Labour (until 1981) SDP (1981–88) 'Continuing' SDP (1988–90) Conservative (1992–2001)
Alma mater	Jesus College, Oxford Nuffield College, Oxford
Website	Official website

Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky, FBA (born 25 April 1939) is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume award-winning biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). Skidelsky read history at Jesus College, Oxford, and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, England.