Dave Ramsden 

Head of the Government Economic Service, HM Treasury

 

 

Dave joined the Civil Service in 1986 before joining the Treasury in 1988. He has worked on a wide range of economic policy issues.Between 1999 and 2003, Dave led the Treasury’s work on whether the UK should join the Euro for which he was awarded a CBE.  He worked on tax administration and policy issues from 2003 until 2006.

 

In June 2007, Dave joined the Treasury Board and in 2008 he was appointed Chief Economic Adviser.  He became Joint Head of the Government Economic Service, the largest single recruiter of economists in the UK in June 2007 and has been sole Head since 2010.  In January 2013 he became Chair of the Treasury’s Diversity Board. 

 

Dave is a trustee of Pro-Bono Economics, a charity whose aim is to broker economists into the charitable sector to help on short and medium-term assignments, typically addressing questions around measurement, results and impact.  He is also President of the Society of Business Economists, on the Council of the Royal Economic Society and is a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.

 

He was knighted in the 2015 New Year Honours for services to economic policy making.