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

Early life

Gertjan Willem Vlieghe was born in Belgium in May 1971, and received a PhD from the

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Career

Vlieghe was an economic assistant to Mervyn King at the Bank of England. He then worked as a

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strategist and director at the

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.Gertjan Vlieghe to join Bank of England's MPC
''The Financial Times'', 28 July 2015 Later, he worked as a senior economist at

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, a hedge fund based in London. In July 2015, it was announced that he would replace

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in September 2015 as an "external member", bringing in expertise from outside the Bank, in the nine-member

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(MPC) of the Bank of England. Vlieghe was hired as an economic advisor to the Chancellor

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in 2022.

References

External links

Bank of England biography Dr Gertjan Vlieghe
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