Economics
The Next BOE Governor Could Be the Insider With the Outside Perspective
- Chief Economist Andy Haldane is the bank’s blue-sky thinker
- The northern Englishman frequently speaks away from London
This article is for subscribers only.
Andy Haldane has spent 30 years working at the Bank of England, yet he may boast the greatest outside perspective of anybody running to become its next governor.
The central bank’s chief economist since 2014, Haldane has long cultivated an image as its man of the people, explaining and defending its decisions across an economy increasingly divided over the upcoming exit from the European Union.