The Government Economic Service (GES) is a professional grouping of public sector economists who work across some 40 departments and agencies of
His Majesty's Government
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(HMG). The GES Board is chaired by the Head of the GES and consists of government chief economists and directors of analysis. GES was founded in 1964
by
Sir Alec Cairncross. The GES recruits economists on behalf of the departments
and is the largest recruiter of economists in the UK.
Professional support for the GES, and since 2010 also for the Government Social Research profession, is provided by the Government Economic and Social Research Team, located at HM Treasury.
History
From March 2018 the post of the Head of the GES has been held jointly by Sam Beckett and Clare Lombardelli.
From June 2007 to July 2010, it held jointly by the Managing Director of Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy in
HM Treasury
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and Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury Dave Ramsden
CBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
and
Vicky Pryce
Vasiliki "Vicky" Pryce (' Kourmouzi ( el, Βασιλική Κουρμούζη); born 15 July 1952) is a Greek-born British economist and a former Joint Head of the United Kingdom's Government Economic Service.
She is currently the Chief Econom ...
Director General of Economics in the
BIS. Tera Allas replaced Vicky Pryce at
BIS in December 2010 and was Deputy Head of the GES until June 2013 during which time Dave Ramsden was the sole Head of the GES. Before this, the previous Head of the GES was
Sir Nicholas Stern, now
Lord Stern of Brentford, who succeeded
Lord O'Donnell.
References
External links
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HM Treasury
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills
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