Andrew Wilson (Scottish economist)

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Andrew Wilson was 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.

  • 1993 to 1995, Andrew worked as an economist with the Government Economic Service,
  • the Scottish National Party (1995-1997),
  • 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.

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