Robert Lowe Hall

Robert Lowe Hall, Baron Roberthall KCMG CB (6 March 1901 – 17 September 1988) was an Australian-born economist who served as chief economic advisor to the British government from 1947 to 1961.

Robert Hall was born in Tenterfield, New South Wales, Australia in 1901. His father, Edgar Hall, was an English mining engineer. while his mother, Rose Helen, was a first-generation Australian, whose father, A.K. Cullen, was Scottish. He was brought up in Queensland, where he attended Ipswich State High School. He obtained a degree in engineering at the University of Queensland, before becoming a Rhodes scholar at the University of Oxford in 1923. Having obtained a first class degree in Modern Greats in 1926, he was appointed to an Economics lectureship at Trinity College, Oxford (1926–47). He was a Fellow from 1927–50 and an Honorary Fellow from 1958. In 1927 he was Junior Dean. He was a Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford 1938-47 and a Visiting Fellow, 1961-64.

During the Second World War he worked in the Ministry of Supply in Washington DC and on the Board of Trade. In 1947, he succeeded James Meade as the Director of the Economic Section of the Cabinet Office of the British government; from 1953 until 1961 he was chief economic advisor to successive Chancellors of the Exchequer.

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