Main Role and Advisory
Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
Advisory Roles
Chair, The Productivity Commission
Executive Committee, The Productivity Institute.
Council Member, Royal Economic Society.
Advisory Council, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge.
Honorary Vice-President, Money-Macro-Finance Society.
Investment Committee, John Lyon's Charity.
Advisory Board, Economics Statistics Centre of Excellence.
Lead Editor, Economics Observatory.
Co-Editor, Macroeconomic Policy Making, Cambridge University Press Series.
Editor, National Institute Economic Review.
Commissioner, 2070 Commission
Previous Roles
I started my career as a official at the Bank of England and moved to an academic post at Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.
Subsequently, also to posts at St Andrews and Kent. From 2005 to 2007, I was at BNP Paribas watching the financial crisis unfold.
From 2012-2017, I served as Chair of the Money-Macro-Finance Society. And from time to time, since 2007, as Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Treasury Committee.
From 2014-2018, I was the Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College.
I sat on the Research Excellent Framework 2021 Panel C and then the Sub-Panel 16 for Economics and Econometrics.
Until its disbandment in 2018, I sat on the ESRC Research Committee.
Visiting Fellow, European Commission, 2009.
Technical assistance with the Asian Development Bank and Nepal Rastra Bank 2011.
Education: University College London and London School of Economics.
Fellow of the Academy of Social Science, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Awarded OBE for services to economics and economic policy, 2021