Andrew Haldane
Faculty of Social Sciences
RSA Chief Executive
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Andrew G. Haldane is the Chief Executive of , the royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce.
Andrew was previously the Chief Economist at the Bank of England. He was a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee and also served as Chair of the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy Council. Among other positions, he is Honorary Professor at University of Nottingham, a Visiting Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. He has authored around 200 articles and 4 books.
Andrew is also the founder of ‘Pro Bono Economics’, a charity which connects economists to charitable projects, a trustee of National Numeracy and Patron of the charities Reach and Speakers for Schools.
Andrew has a strong connection to SPERI and to the University of Sheffield. An Economics graduate of the University, he was . He delivered the which explored the question ‘Is All Economics Local?’. Andrew was an ‘In Conversation’ guest at SPERI in 2014 and in 2017 he hosted and gave a keynote speech at .