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Alan Budd

Sir Alan Budd
GBE
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Sir Alan Budd in 2008.
Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility
In office
May 2010 – 4 October 2010
Deputy صغ
Preceded by office established
Succeeded by Robert Chote
Personal details
Born (1937-11-16) 16 November 1937 (age 79)
London, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Alma mater London School of Economics
University of Oxford
University of Cambridge

Sir Alan Peter Budd GBE (born 16 November 1937) is a prominent British economist, who was a founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in 1997.

He left the MPC in May 1999, and between August 1999 and 2008 was Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.

He was temporarily head of Her Majesty's Government's Office for Budget Responsibility during 2010.

Budd went to Oundle School, a public school in Cambridgeshire, and then studied at the London School of Economics where he received a B.Sc. degree in economics. He subsequently went to the University of Oxford were he received an MA degree and a D.Phil. degree and to the University of Cambridge where he obtained a Ph.D. degree.

His academic posts have included the University of Southampton, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Pittsburgh (Ford foundation visiting professor), and the University of New South Wales (Reserve Bank of Australia visiting professor).


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