Alan Budd

Sir Alan Budd
Budd in 2008
Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility
In office
May 2010 – 4 October 2010
Preceded byoffice established
Succeeded byRobert Chote
Personal details
Born
Alan Peter Budd

(1937-11-16)16 November 1937
Bromley, Kent, England[1]
Died13 January 2023(2023-01-13) (aged 85)
Spouse
Susan Millott
(m. 1964)
Children3
Alma materLondon School of Economics
University of Oxford
University of Cambridge

Sir Alan Peter Budd GBE (16 November 1937 – 13 January 2023) was a British economist, who was a founding member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in 1997.

Budd left the MPC in May 1999, and between August 1999 and 2008 was Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford.

Budd was temporarily head of Her Majesty's Government's Office for Budget Responsibility during 2010.[2]

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 22 April 2018.
  2. ^ Inman, Phillip (6 July 2010). "Alan Budd quits as government spending watchdog". The Guardian. London.