Robert Skidelsky is a British historian and economist best known for his award-winning three-volume biography on John Maynard Keynes. The second volume, The Economist as Saviour, 1920–1937, won the Wolfson History Prize in 1992. The third volume, Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946, won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2000, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 2001, the Arthur Ross Book Award for international relations in 2002, and the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations, and was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for nonfiction writing in 2001. Other writings include Keynes: The Return of the Master. He has also written many relevant papers and books on the British economy.

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