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Policy Committee

The CEP's work is overseen by our Policy Committee, drawn from government, business and academia. The Policy Committee is chaired by Sam Beckett, (Former Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury).

The Policy Committee meets twice a year to review the work of the Centre.

Policy committee members:

  • Tera Allas CBE, Senior Advisor, McKinsey & Company
  • Sam Beckett (Chair), Former Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury, Head of the Government Economic Service and Second Permanent Secretary
  • Brian Bell, Chief Economic Adviser and Director General Economics and Fiscal to the Treasury, Head of the Government Economic Service
  • Sir Richard Blundell CBE, Ricardo Professor of Political Economy at UCL, Co-Director of the ESRC Centre for the Microeconomic Analysis of Public Policy (CPP) and a Senior Research Fellow at IFS
  • Phillip Inman, Senior Economics Writer, The Guardian
  • Bridget Rosewell CBE
  • Tony Venables CBE, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Economics, Oxford
  • Sushil Wadhwani CBE
  • Lord David Willetts, Member of the House of Lords and President of the Resolution Foundation
  • Linda Yueh CBE, Fellow in Economics, St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Centre Members:

  • Stephen Machin, CEP Director
  • Henry Overman, CEP Research Director
  • Anna Valero, Growth Programme Director
  • Richard Layard, Wellbeing Programme Co-Director