Three other high-profile members are the former BBC economic editor Stephanie Flanders, the Reuters blogger Anatole Kaletsky and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Anne Applebaum.
"Mr. Suter ran the business with low costs and compromised on safety," said Werner Vontobel, the chief economic editor of the Swiss newspaper Sonntagsblick, echoing a widely held view in Switzerland.
"This week he breezed through interviews on finance (he's the BBC's economic editor), Harry Potter and the Tour de France, all without once spluttering into bewildered Grumpy Old Man-nerisms".
Having lived in France and Germany, I'm struck on returning to Britain after 30 years not by the hard lines hiving off immigrant Muslim communities as in those countries but by the relative fluidity that produces Faisal Islam, economic editor of the influential Channel 4 News, or Sajid Javid, a bus driver's son and Tory MP.
The difference is that in France, the rich are expected to carry a heavier burden, says Romain Gubert, deputy economic editor for Le Point magazine.
Economic editor Stephanie Flanders said: "We broadly got what we were expecting" over borrowing figures, with a slight rise coming in the next year, which will "muddy the waters for him".
BBC economic editor Robert Peston said Prof Dustmann and his co-author Tommaso Frattini had "exploded" the idea that the majority of immigrants were benefit and public-service tourists - but, as Migration Watch had highlighted, they had also shown that, over the longer term, immigrants to the UK had been a burden on the state.
Naturally, wearing my economic editor's hat, I can be sad that there hasn't been more explicit debate on the wealth-creating imperatives of boosting lacklustre productivity, reducing record personal debts and re-engineering our corporate sector to cope with the Ubers and the indomitable new sharing economy.
House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, speaking to the Wall Street Journal's economic editor Steve Moore, offered his hope of avoiding a government shutdown -- the very same type of political brinksmanship that others in the GOP tent have cheered.
In the first of a new series of three programmes, BBC economics editor Stephanie Flanders discusses the current economic crisis with leading economic thinkers.
