Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky, English historian and academic
Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky, (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. Since 2016, he has been a member of the board of Russian oil company Russneft.