Ramsden joined the Civil Service in 1986 before joining the Treasury in 1988. He has worked on a wide range of economic policy issues, including monetary policy, fiscal and tax policy, the public finances, the business sector and labour markets.
Between 1999 and 2003, Ramsden led the Treasury's work on whether the UK should join the Euro. He worked on tax administration and policy issues from 2003 until 2006.
In June 2007, Ramsden joined the Treasury Board and in 2008 he was appointed Chief Economic Adviser. He became Joint Head of the Government Economic Service, the largest single recruiter of economists in the UK, from 2007; sole Head in 2010. In January 2013 he became Chair of the Treasury’s Diversity Board.
Ramsden 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 Professional Economists.
For his work on whether the UK should join the Euro, he was appointed CBE. He was knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to economic policy making.[6][7]
^ abWHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. Ramsden, Sir David Edward John, (born 9 Feb. 1964), Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking, Member of Monetary Policy Committee, Financial Policy Committee and Prudential Regulation Committee, Bank of England, since 2017. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U59555.
