Robert Woods

Bank of England

Since October 2010 Robert has been the Head of the Macro Financial Analysis Division in the Monetary Analysis Directorate of the Bank of England. Before that he had worked in the UK Treasury in a variety of roles, most recently as the Director of Macroeconomics and Chief Macroeconomist in the Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy Directorate and before that as the Head of the Global Economics team in the International and Finance Directorate. His areas of interest include: monetary policy, fiscal policy, economics of monetary union, international economics, pensions and tax policy. Robert holds a BA in Economics from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Economics from the University of Warwick.