Economists for Free Trade

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Screengrab from Economists for Free Trade's upbeat website

Economists for Free Trade (formerly Economists for Brexit) is a lobby group pushing for a hard Brexit after the June 2016 decision by the UK to leave the EU.

The group states that leaving the EU will have a positive impact the UK economy, providing a counter-narrative to most economists who think that the opposite will be true.

People

The EFF 'Team' (as of Nov 2017). There are no women in the 17-strong team.

• Professor Patrick Minford, Chair, Economists for Free Trade, Professor of Economics at Cardiff University, formerly Director and Founder of Liverpool Research Group
• Edgar Miller Convener, Economists for Free Trade, Managing Director, Palladian Limited and Senior Visiting Fellow, Cass Business School
• Professor David Blake, Professor of Economics, Cass Business School and Director of the Pensions Institute
• Roger Bootle, Chairman of Capital Economics and Special Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee
• Michael Burrage, Entrepreneur and Founder-Director of a specialist telecoms company. Former Harvard Research Fellow.
• Professor Tim Congdon, Previously a member of the Treasury Panel of Independent Forecasters
• Professor Kevin Dowd, Professor of Finance and Economics at Durham University Business School, a partner in Cobden Partners and an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute
• John Greenwood, Chief Economist at Invesco
• Liam Halligan, Economist, broadcaster and columnist at the Sunday Telegraph
• Martin Howe QC, Leading expert on EU constitution and Barrister at 8 New Square specialising in Intellectual Property and EU law
• Warwick Lightfoot, Special Adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1989 and 1992
• Professor Graeme Leach, CEO & Chief Economist of Macronomics, a macroeconomic, geopolitical and future megatrends consultancy
• Neil MacKinnon, Global Macro Strategist at VTB Capital
• Professor Kent Matthews, Professor of Banking and Finance at Cardiff University
• Professor David Paton, Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University
• Professor Vudayagi Balasubramanyam, Professor of Development Economics at Lancaster University
• Dr John Whittaker, Former MEP and Senior Teaching Fellow at Lancaster University

Advisors

Advisors to the EFF (as of Nov 2017). There are no women among the 11-man advisory board of the EFF.

• John Craven, Former Board Member Deutsche Bank, Chairman of Morgan Grenfell
• James Dyson, Founder, Dyson Ltd
• Lord Howard Flight, Chairman Flight & Partners, Chairman EIS Association
• Daniel Hodson, Chairman, The City for Britain, former CEO of LIFFE and Gresham Professor of Commerce
• John Longworth, Former Director British Chambers of Commerce, Co-Chairman of Leave Means Leave
• Tim Montgomerie, Editor of UnHerd, Founder of ConservativeHome
• David Ord, Co-Owner of Bristol Ports, Vice Chair Open Europe
• Owen Paterson, MP, Former Secretary of State Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs & former Secretary of State Northern Ireland
• Barnabas Reynolds, Partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP, Head of Global Financial Institutions Advisory Practice
• Jacob Rees-Mogg MP, Member Treasury Select Committee, Director of Somerset Capital
• Viscount Ridley, Science and Technology Committee (House of Lords), Columnist The Times

Contact

• Website: https://www.economistsforfreetrade.com
• Tel: 0203 585 5290; it shares the same telephone number as Leave Means Leave campaign