Alan Budd

Alan Budd

Sir Alan Peter Budd (born 16 November 1937) is a prominent British economist, who was a founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in 1997.

He left the MPC in May 1999, and between August 1999 and 2008 was Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.

He was temporarily head of the UK government's Office for Budget Responsibility during 2010.

Read more about Alan Budd:  Education, Economic Positions, Public Profile

Famous quotes containing the word alan:

    ... in doing our psychology, we want to attribute mental states fully opaquely because it’s the fully opaque reading which tells us what the agent has in mind, and it’s what the agent has in mind that causes his behavior.
    —Jerry Alan Fodor (b. 1935)