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She has served on the Council of the [[Royal Economic Society]], the [[National Consumer Council]], the [[Nurses' Pay Review Body]], the [[ONS]] Statistics Advisory Committee, the [[ESRC Research Priorities Board]] and the [[Retail Prices Advisory Committee]]. | She has served on the Council of the [[Royal Economic Society]], the [[National Consumer Council]], the [[Nurses' Pay Review Body]], the [[ONS]] Statistics Advisory Committee, the [[ESRC Research Priorities Board]] and the [[Retail Prices Advisory Committee]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 14:50, 21 April 2016
Ruth Lea is Non-Executive Director and Economic Adviser to Arbuthnot Banking Group. [1] Lea co-founded Global Vision and was a director to 2010.[2]
Background
Lea is a former Director of the Centre for Policy Studies (2004-07). She is on the University of London Council, a Governor of the London School of Economics and a non-executive director of Arbuthnot Banking Group plc. She is the author of many papers including “The 2006 Essential Guide to the European Union”, “Education and training: a business blueprint for reform” and “Healthcare in the UK: the need for reform”. She has a high media profile and writes regularly for the Daily Telegraph.
She was Head of the Policy Unit at the Institute of Directors (IoD) between 1995 and 2003. Prior to the IoD, she was the Economics Editor at ITN. And before ITN, she worked in the City for 6 years.
She spent over 5 years at Mitsubishi Bank, rising to Chief Economist, working on all the major economies. She was subsequently employed by Lehman Brothers as their Chief UK Economist, concentrating on the UK economy and markets.
Prior to joining Mitsubishi Bank in 1988, she spent 16 years in the Civil Service in the Treasury, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Central Statistical Office and the Civil Service College - with a break for teaching economics at Thames Polytechnic (now the University of Greenwich).[3]
Affiliations
She has served on the Council of the Royal Economic Society, the National Consumer Council, the Nurses' Pay Review Body, the ONS Statistics Advisory Committee, the ESRC Research Priorities Board and the Retail Prices Advisory Committee. [1]
