Andrew Sentance

Andrew Sentance
Sentance speaking at Policy Exchange, February 2014
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee
In office October 2006 – May 2011
Governor	Mervyn King
Personal details
Alma mater	Clare College, Cambridge, London School of Economics
Profession	Economist
Website	www.sentance.com

Andrew Sentance, CBE (born 1958) is a British business economist. He is currently Senior Economic Adviser to PwC, a position he took up in November 2011. He was an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England from October 2006 to May 2011.

Sentance was born in Bebington on the Wirral and grew up in south-east London. He was educated at Eltham College, Clare College, Cambridge and the London School of Economics. At Eltham College, he studied Economics, Mathematics and History at A Level, and at Clare College gained a BA (Hons, 2.1) in Economics, graduating in 1980. His postgraduate studies were carried out at the London School of Economics, completing an Economics MSc (1981–82) and a PhD – submitting his thesis The Government as employer: a macroeconomic analysis in 1987.

He is a part-time Professorial Fellow at the University of Warwick, based at Warwick Business School where he is developing research into the future Low Carbon Society. He holds a visiting professorship at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was awarded an honorary D.Sc by the University of London in 2008. He is also a Vice-President and former Chairman of the Society of Business Economists.

Before joining the Bank of England, Sentance held various economic positions. He was Head of Economic Policy and Director of Economic Affairs at the CBI, where he worked from September 1986 until December 1993. In January 1994, he joined London Business School, where he was a Senior Research Fellow and subsequently Director of the Centre for Economic Forecasting.