Sir Alan Budd

SIR ALAN BUDD was a founding member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee in the summer of 1997. He left the MPC in the summer of 1999 and is now Provost of The Queen’s College, Oxford, and an adviser to Credit Suisse First Boston. Between 1991 and 1997, he was chief economic adviser to the Treasury, and headed the Government Economic Service. During the 1980s he was Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Economic Forecasting at the London Business School. Sir Alan began working at HM Treasury in the early 1970s.

Bronwyn Curtis

BRONWYN CURTIS was Head of European Broadcast at Bloomberg LP from 1999 to 2006. She is now Chief Economist and Partner at the Arch Investment Group. She is also Chairman of the Society of Business Economists, a Governor of the London School of Economics and a board member of the NIESR, Office of Fair Trading and Imperial College Business School. From 1996 to 1999 Bronwyn was Chief Economist for Nomura International. Before that she was at Deutsche Bank where she was Global Head of Foreign Exchange and Fixed Income Strategy. Bronwyn has also worked at Masterfoods and as a consultant to the World Bank and UNCTAD on commodity projects in West Africa, Asia and the Caribbean.

Geoffrey Dicks

GEOFFREY DICKS is the chief UK and euro economist at Royal Bank of Scotland Financial Markets. He joined NatWest Markets in October 1993, and stayed with Greenwich NatWest after the sale of NatWest Securities in 1998. Between 1976 and 1993, before joining NatWest, Geoffrey worked at the London Business School, where he was appointed Associate Professor of Economics. He also edited the London Business School’s Economic Outlook. Geoffrey attended Reading and Southamption Universities and holds degrees in both economics and econometrics.

Charles Goodhart

CHARLES GOODHART, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Harvard University, is Emeritus Professor of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics (LSE).

Before joining the LSE in 1985, he worked at the Bank of England for 17 years as an adviser, becoming a chief adviser in 1980. He and Mervyn King, the present Bank Governor, were founders of the LSE's Financial Markets Group, of which he remains a member.

A sheep farmer in his spare time, Professor Goodhart is the author of “Goodhart's Law”, an economic theory which says that once an economic indicator is used to help to set policy, it becomes distorted and a less clear guide.

Anatole Kaletsky

ANATOLE KALETSKY is associate editor of The Times and one of the country’s leading economic commentators. Anatole was previously economics editor of The Times, and has won many awards for his financial and political journalism. He also acts as a consultant, providing economic forecasts and policy analysis for financial institutions and multinational companies. Before his appointment at The Times, Anatole worked for 12 years on the Financial Times in a variety of posts. He holds degrees from Cambridge University and from Harvard.

Rupert Pennant-Rea

Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England

RUPERT PENNANT-REA is a businessman and journalist, and a former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England. Educated in Zimbabwe before attending Trinity College, Dublin, and Manchester University, Mr Pennant-Rea first joined the Bank of England in 1973. He left in 1977 to join The Economist magazine, where he was editor for seven years until 1993. It was then that he returned to the Bank as deputy to Governor Sir Eddie George, until 1995. He was appointed chairman of the Henderson Group in 2005, and serves as director at a number of companies, including Times Newspapers.

Sir Steve Robson

SIR STEVE ROBSON retired as Second Permanent Secretary at HM Treasury in January 2001. He joined the Treasury after leaving university. His early career included a period as private secretary to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and a two-year secondment to Investors in Industry plc (3i). From 1997 until his retirement, Sir Steve’s responsibilities included the legal framework for regulation of the UK financial services industry and public private partnerships. He is a non-executive director of Partnerships UK, Cazenove, Xstrata and the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Sushil Wadhwani, CBE

SUSHIL WASHWANI was a full-time external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee between June 1999 and May 2002. From 1995-1999 Dr Wadhwani was Head of the Quantitative Systems Group, a member of the Management Committee and Partner at Tudor Proprietary Trading LLC, a fund management company. He was previously Director of Equity Strategy at Goldman Sachs International (1991-95) and before that Reader/Lecturer in Economics at the London School of Economics (1984-91). Dr Wadhwani was educated at the London School of Economics, where he obtained a BSc (Econ), MSc (Econ) and PhD (Econ). He now runs Wadhwani Asset Management.

Martin Weale

MARTIN WEALE, director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, is one of the country’s leading applied economists. In 1998-99 he completed a study for the Government on problems with the UK’s average earnings index. In 2000 he was appointed to the newly established Statistics Commission — the body charged with monitoring the UK’s Government Statistical Service. In 1999 Martin was appointed Commander of the British Empire for services to economics. He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2001.

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