Ruth Lea
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Ruth Lea CB FBA |
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Ruth Jane Lea CBE (born 22 September 1947) is a British political economist working in the financial sector.
Lea joined the Civil Service before working for the Institute of Directors, a private-sector employer lobbying organisation, as well as for policy research bodies and the media.
Born in Cheshire, Lea attended Lymm Grammar School before going up to the University of York (BA) and postgraduate studies at the University of Bristol (MSc). She studied at the London School of Economics in 1973. She served almost 16 years in the British Civil Service, working in HM Treasury, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Central Statistical Office and at the Civil Service College, before becoming a Lecturer at Thames Polytechnic (now Greenwich University).
In 1988, she joined Mitsubishi Bank in the City rising to Chief Economist and became a regular television and radio commentator on economic matters. She was UK Economist at Lehman Brothers for one year until 1995, before her appointment as ITN's Economics Editor, and subsequently Head of the Policy Unit at the Institute of Directors, a post she held from 1995–2003. She was famously "made redundant" from the IoD, reputedly following pressure exerted by the Labour Government regarding her robustly expressed concerns over New Labour economic policy; she was Director of the Centre for Policy Studies from 2004–07 and Director of Global Vision from 2007–10.
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