Rory Stewart stated that Gary Stevenson is not a professional economist but a city trader who studied an undergraduate degree in economics.

The best-paid job for economics graduates when Gary Stevenson was at university (around 2006-2008) was working as a trader.

Gary Stevenson believes that strong mechanisms prevent talented economics students from poor backgrounds from becoming academics, as they cannot afford the low pay compared to finance careers.

Gary Stevenson quit his job as a millionaire trader and returned to academia in 2017 to pursue a 2-year MPhil at Oxford, focusing on inequality's effect on interest rates.

Gary Stevenson believes that politicians, university economists, central bank economists, and media economists, whose job it is to fix global economic issues, are 'definitely not going to fix it.'

Gary Stevenson was Citibank's most profitable trader in the world in 2011.