Gertjan Vlieghe

Gertjan Vlieghe
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee
In office September 2015 – August 2021
Governor	Andrew Bailey (2020–present)
Personal details
Born	May 1971 (age 53) Belgium
Profession	Economist

Gertjan Willem Vlieghe (born May 1971) is a British-Belgian economist.

Early life

Gertjan Willem Vlieghe was born in Belgium in May 1971,^[1] and received a PhD from the London School of Economics.^[2]

Career

Vlieghe was an economic assistant to Mervyn King at the Bank of England.^[2] He then worked as a bond strategist and director at the Deutsche Bank.^[2][3] Later, he worked as a senior economist at Brevan Howard, a hedge fund based in London.^[2][3]

In July 2015, it was announced that he would replace David Miles in September 2015 as an "external member", bringing in expertise from outside the Bank, in the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England.^[2][3]

Vlieghe was hired as an economic advisor to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in 2022.^[4]

References

1. "Brevan Howard". Companies House. Retrieved 6 February 2016.
2. Allen, Katie (28 July 2015). "Bank of England: Gertjan Vlieghe named as new MPC member". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 July 2015.
3. Gertjan Vlieghe to join Bank of England's MPC, The Financial Times, 28 July 2015
4. "Who are the economic experts appointed to Jeremy Hunt's new advisory panel?". the Guardian. 17 October 2022.

External links

• Bank of England biography Dr Gertjan Vlieghe