Economic Positions
After various academic roles, he became senior economic advisor to HM Treasury between 1970 and 1974. During the 1980s he was professor of economics and director of the Centre for Economic Forecasting at the London Business School. Other appointments have included group economic adviser, Barclays Bank (1989–91), and membership of the Advisory Board for Research Councils (1990–91).
Between 1991 and 1997, he was chief economic adviser to the Treasury, and headed the government economic service. Sir Alan was knighted in 1997.
Among his activities as an economist, he is a governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research; a founder member of the UK-Japan 21st Century Group; an executive editor of World Economics and a member of the editorial advisory board of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He is also a senior adviser to Credit Suisse First Boston and a consultant to the G8 Group. In 2005, he was appointed to the board of the IG Group, a spread betting firm founded by Stuart Wheeler.
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