Career
Johnson's first job was at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where he remained from 1988 to 1998, in the last two years serving as a deputy director. [1]
From September 1998 to January 1999 he was an advisor on pensions and welfare reform in the Cabinet Office. [2] He was also head of Economies of Financial Regulation at the Financial Services Authority, 1998–2000, before being appointed as chief economist and director of analytical services to the Department for Education and Employment, soon renamed as the Department for Education and Skills, remaining until 2004. That year he went to HM Treasury as Director of Public Services and Chief Micro-Economist, continuing in post until 2007. He was also deputy head of the Government Economic Service from 2005 to 2007. [1] [3]
Between 2007 and 2010 he was a senior associate at Frontier Economics. In 2011 was appointed as director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. [1] [3]
Johnson was a member of the Economic and Social Research Council from 2002 to 2007 [2] and a member of the Committee on Climate Change from 2012 to 2023.
He has carried out reviews of automatic enrolment for the government, inflation measurement for the UK Statistics Authority and of tax devolution for the Northern Ireland Executive.
On 17 October 2024, his pre-election as provost of The Queen's College, Oxford was announced. He is due to succeed Claire Craig as provost in August 2025. [4]
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