Emeritus Professor Charles Goodhart delivered a lecture to Regulation of Financial Markets students on the origins of central banking and the history of supervision on Friday 6 November 2015. The lecture was held at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies and covered three hundred years of central banking history and forty years of international supervision, drawing on Professor Goodhart's experience at the Bank of England as former chief economist and member of its first Monetary Policy Committee, and his expertise as the world’s leading authority in central banking.