Ben Broadbent

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Benjamin Robert Hamond Broadbent (born 1 February 1965)[2] is a British economist and has been Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy at the Bank of England since 1 July 2014.[3] He had previously been an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee between June 2011 and June 2014.

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Ben Broadbent
Deputy Governor of the Bank of England for Monetary Policy
In office
1 July 2014  30 June 2024
GovernorMark Carney
Andrew Bailey
Preceded byCharlie Bean
Succeeded byClare Lombardelli
Member of the Monetary Policy Committee
In office
1 June 2011 [1]  30 June 2024
GovernorMervyn King
Mark Carney
Andrew Bailey
Personal details
Born (1965-02-01) 1 February 1965 (age 61)
Alma materTrinity Hall, Cambridge
Harvard University
ProfessionEconomist, central & investment banker
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Early life

He attended St Paul's School, London from 1977 to 1982, gained a first-class honours degree in economics from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1988, and then studied for a Ph.D. at Harvard University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

Career

After working for HM Treasury, he worked for the Bank of England, before becoming an assistant professor at Columbia University. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as Senior European Economist, a position he held until 2011. In June 2011, he replaced the departing Andrew Sentance on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee.[4]

Broadbent was reappointed, for a second term, Deputy Governor for the Bank of England on 31 May 2019.

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