{"id":428768,"date":"2026-02-16T14:17:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428768\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:17:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:17:10","slug":"professor-brian-bell-appointed-as-chief-economic-advisor-to-the-uk-treasury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428768\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Brian Bell appointed as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK Treasury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraphstyled__ParagraphStyled-sc-176xsi4-0 cgUnvG\">In this role, Professor Bell will be the principal advisor to the Chancellor and the Prime Minister on the macroeconomy and fiscal policy, leading the Treasury\u2019s economics function and its work to deliver the government\u2019s economic objectives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraphstyled__ParagraphStyled-sc-176xsi4-0 cgUnvG\">Professor Bell joined King\u2019s in January 2017 and held a number of leadership roles in King\u2019s Business School, including as Head of the Economics Department. He is currently serving as Chair of the Migration Advisory Committee, an independent body that advises the government on migration issues. Before academia he had previously held roles at the Bank of England and the International Monetary Fund, as well as positions in the private sector, working as an economist and proprietary trader for hedge funds and investment banks in London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this role, Professor Bell will be the principal advisor to the Chancellor and the Prime Minister on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-428768","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}