Huw Pill

Huw Pill
Member of the Monetary PolicyCommittee
Incumbent
Assumed office September 2021
Governor	Andrew Bailey (2020-)
Personal details
Alma mater	University College, Oxford (B.A.) Stanford University (PhD)
Profession	Economist

Huw Pill is a Welsh^[1][2] economist, and the chief economist of the Bank of England since September 2021, succeeding Andy Haldane.^[3]

Pill studied philosophy, politics and economics at University College, Oxford, and graduated in 1989.^[4] He earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University in 1995.^[5]

He worked as an economist at the Bank of England from 1990 to 1992. After graduating from Stanford, he was appointed assistant professor of business administration at Harvard University. He left Harvard to work at the European Central Bank (ECB) for a couple of years and returned to Harvard as an associate professor in 2003. In 2004, he worked at the ECB again and left to become chief European economist for Goldman Sachs in 2011. From 2019 to 2021 he worked as senior lecturer at Harvard.^[6]

Publications

• Institutions, Macroeconomics and the Global Economy (2003, co-author)^[5]

References

1. "The Bank of Wales? Welshman Huw Pill appointed Bank of England's new chief economist". 2 September 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
2. Barnett, Jack (2 September 2021). "Another Goldman banker or a much needed hawkish voice: Who is Huw Pill?". City AM. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
3. Elliott, Larry (1 September 2021). "Bank of England appoints Huw Pill as chief economist". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 September 2021.
4. "Huw Pill | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal". voxeu.org. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
5. "Huw Pill". National Institute of Economic and Social Research. Archived from the original on 13 September 2021. Retrieved 13 September 2021.
6. Huw Pill. Retrieved 8 October 2021.