Andrew Wilson (Scottish economist)

Andrew Wilson is Deputy Chief Economist of the Royal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS).

Educated at St Andrews and Strathclyde Universities he was born and brought up in Lanarkshire.

From 1993 to 1995, Andrew worked as an economist with the Government Economic Service, the SNP (1995-1997), and the Royal Bank of Scotland (1997-1999). From 1999 to 2003 he was a Member of the Scottish Parliament and the Shadow Minister on first Finance, then Economy and Transport and finally Economy and Lifelong Learning. During this period he also wrote a weekly column in the Sunday Mail (Scotland’s largest selling newspaper) and contributed to a variety of other newspapers. From October 2003 to October 2005 he was Head of Group Media Relations with RBS.

He is a Trustee and Honorary Treasurer of The John Smith Memorial Trust, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, and Member of the Institute of Fiscal Studies.