Professor of Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, 2025-present

Visiting Professor, Birkbeck College, Department of Economics, 2025-present

Fellow, Royal Economic Society, 2025-present

Fellow,  Gresham College London, 2025-present

Honorary Fellow, NIESR, 2025-present

Fellow of the Academy of Social Science 2019-present

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 2018-present

Awarded OBE for services to economics and economic policy, 2021

Contributory Editor at Central Banking.

Formerly Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, 2016-24

Advisory Roles

Chair, The Productivity Commission, 2019-23

Executive Committee, The Productivity Institute. 2019-present

Council Member, Royal Economic Society, 2018-23

Advisory Council, Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge.  2022-present

Honorary Vice-President, Money-Macro-Finance Society.  207-present

Investment Committee, John Lyon's Charity.  2022-present

Lead Editor, Economics Observatory. 2020-present

Co-Editor,  Macroeconomic Policy Making, Cambridge University Press Series, 2012-present.

Editor, National Institute Economic Review, 2016-24

Commissioner, 2070 Commission, 2017-24

I started my career as a official at the Bank of England and moved to an academic post at Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge.

Subsequently, also to posts at St Andrews and Kent.   From 2005 to 2007, I was at BNP Paribas watching the financial crisis unfold.

From 2012-2017, I served as Chair of the Money-Macro-Finance Society.   And from time to time, since 2007, as Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Treasury Committee.       

From 2014-2018, I was the Mercers’ School Memorial Professor of Business at Gresham College alongside my main roles.  

I sat on the Research Excellent Framework 2021 Panel C and then the Sub-Panel 16 for Economics and Econometrics. 

Until its disbandment in 2018, I sat on the ESRC Research Committee.

Visiting Fellow, European Commission, 2009. 

Technical assistance with the Asian Development Bank and Nepal Rastra Bank 2011.