David RAMSDEN

   

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Chief Economic Adviser to HM Treasury (vice minister level)

David ("Dave") Ramsden CBE (born 9 February 1964) is a senior British civil servant, serving as Director General and the Chief Economic Adviser to HM Treasury. He is the Head of the Government Economic Service, having previously served as Joint Head of the Service with Vicky Pryce, formerly Director-General at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.

Dave Ramsden began his civil service career in the Government Economic Service in the Department of Health and Social Security and joined the Treasury in 1988. He has worked on a wide range of macroeconomic and microeconomic policy issues relating to the UK and European economies including fiscal and tax policy and the public finances, the business sector and labour markets. He played a leading role on the UK's policy agendas for the EU Stability and Growth Pact and economic reform and, from 2001 to 2002, he was a member of the EU's Economic Policy Committee. Between 1999 and 2003 he led the Treasury's work on the Assessment of the Five Economic Tests and 18 EMU studies, for which he was awarded a CBE in the 2004 New Years Honours. This analysis was the basis for the Government's decision on UK membership of the single currency.  He worked on tax administration and policy issues from 2003 until 2006.

In June 2007, Dave joined the Treasury Board as Managing Director for Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy and in 2008 he was appointed Chief Economic Adviser. 

Dave is a trustee of Pro-Bono Economics, a charity whose aim is to broker economists into the charitable sector to help on short and medium-term assignments, typically addressing questions around measurement, results and impact.  He is also President of the Society of Business Economists and Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.