Gertjan Vlieghe | |
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Member of the Monetary Policy Committee | |
In office September 2015 –August 2021 | |
Governor | Andrew Bailey (2020–present) |
Personal details | |
Born | May 1971 (age 52) Belgium |
Profession | Economist |
Gertjan Willem Vlieghe (born May 1971) is a British-Belgian economist.
Gertjan Willem Vlieghe was born in Belgium in May 1971, [1] and received a PhD from the London School of Economics. [2]
Vlieghe was an economic assistant to Mervyn King at the Bank of England. [2] He then worked as a bond strategist and director at the Deutsche Bank. [2] [3] Later,he worked as a senior economist at Brevan Howard,a hedge fund based in London. [2] [3]
In July 2015,it was announced that he would replace David Miles in September 2015 as an "external member",bringing in expertise from outside the Bank,in the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England. [2] [3]
Vlieghe was hired as an economic advisor to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in 2022. [4]
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