Alan Budd is Provost of The
Queen’s College, Oxford. A former
Chief Economic Adviser to HM
Treasury and Head of the
Government Economic Service
between 1991 and 1997, he has held a
number of distinguished posts in both
the academic and the financial worlds,
having worked for Barclays Bank and
Credit Suisse First Boston. He was a
founder member of the Bank of
England’s Monetary Policy
Committee.