Economic Policy Centre

People

Advisory board

Professor Nick Bosanquet a consultant Director at the Reform think tank and a Professor at Imperial College London | Sir John Bourn KCB was Comptroller and Auditor General of the National Audit Office from 1988-2008, has served as Chairman of the Professional Oversight Board, is a member of the Board of the Financial Reporting Council and is a Patron of the Foundation for Governance, Research and Education |Brian M. Carney is a London-based member of the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal and the editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe | Dr Philip Collins is a writer on The Times, Chair of the Demos Board of Trustees. He was, until July 2007, Chief Speech Writer to the Prime Minister, Tony Blair, in 10 Downing Street | Claire Fox is the director of the Institute of Ideas and convenes an annual Battle of Ideas festival | Angela Knight CBE, became an MP in 1992 and was Economic Secretary to the Treasury between 1995 and 1997. She was the Chief Executive of the Association of Private Client Investment Managers and Stockbrokers from September 1997 to December 2006. She is currently the Chief Executive of the British Bankers Association | Paul Ormerod is director of Volterra Consulting | Stephen Pollard is editor of the Jewish Chronicle and has been a journalist and leader writer for the Daily Express, the Times and is a former President of the Centre for the New Europe in Brussels and the Fabian Society | Professor Garel Rhys CBE Emeritus Professor of Economics at Cardiff University | Ashley Seager, now with Deutsche Bank, was the Guardian’s economics correspondent from 2004-2010 | David Smith is Economics Editor of the Sunday Times]] | Professor David B. Smith was the Chief Economist at London stockbrokers Williams de Broë plc from 1982 until his retirement in July 2006. Acting Chairman of the Shadow Monetary Policy Committee run by the Institute for Economic Affairs (IEA) | Professor Michael Stuermer Chief Correspondent at Die Welt newspaper in Berlin. In the 1980s an adviser and speechwriter to Chancellor Kohl | Corin Taylor has been a Senior Policy Adviser at the Institute of Directors, formerly a Research Director of the Taxpayers Alliance | Giles Wilkes from 2006-2010, Chief Economist of CentreForum, works as an adviser to the Coalition government.

Affiliations

Signatory to letter to the Telegraph, March 2011: Enemies of Enterprise Seek Controls on Tobacco