Jagjit Chadha

Jagjit is Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR). Previously he was Professor of Economics at the University of Kent and at Cambridge and Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews and Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. He has acted as Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and academic adviser to both the Bank of England and HM Treasury. In the City of London he was the Mercers’ Memorial Professor of Commerce at Gresham College from 2014-2018. In the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours he was awarded an OBE for his services to Economics and Economic Policy.