His areas of research include institutional asset management, investment banking, and private equity. Howard joined the Saїd Business School in 2003 after a 15-year career in investment banking. He had previously worked at Deutsche Bank and at BNP Paribas, where he was worldwide head of equity capital markets. Howard is also a Lecturer in Linguistics at Keble College; his research interests here are in the early Germanic languages. Howard graduated in Classics and Modern Languages from Magdalen College, Oxford, and he has a degree in German and a PhD in Linguistics from the University of London.