Andy Ross was a telephone engineer before he studied at the LSE and Birkbeck and then went on to become an economics lecturer, dean and university director. Entering the civil service in 2000, he became deputy director for the UK Government Economic Service (GES) and a deputy director at HM Treasury. He ‘retired’ from the Treasury in February 2013 but remains the chief academic advisor for the GES’s recruitment regime. He is currently a visiting professor at Loughborough University and teaches a vocationally orientated economics module at the University of Leeds as well as lecturing on macroeconomics and the economics of public policy at Birkbeck. He was an employer representative on the QAA subject benchmark panel for economics, is a member of the British Academy’s UK Strategic Forum for Social Science and in 2015 was conferred as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He is a patron of the Economics Network.
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