Council of Economic Advisers (Scotland)

The Council at their first meeting

The Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) is a group of economists and captains of industry who advise the Scottish Government. It was established in 2007, meeting for the first time on 21 September.

Minutes of its quarterly meetings will be published a fortnight after each meeting. It is intended that the council will publish an annual report on the condition of the Scottish economy.

Membership

• Sir George Mathewson (convener), former chief executive and then chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland; previously chief executive of the Scottish Development Agency
• Frances Cairncross, Rector of Exeter College at Oxford University; previously journalist at The Economist, chair of the Economic and Social Research Council, author, including: Costing the Earth and Green, inc
• Sir Robert Smith, chairman of the Weir Group and Scottish and Southern Energy; non-executive director of 3i group, Standard Bank Group and Aegon UK; chair of the Smith Group
• Professor Andrew Hughes Hallett, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at George Mason University and visiting Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews; previously consultant for the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Federal Reserve Board, the United Nations, the OECD, the European Commission and various central banks
• Professor Alex Kemp, Schlumberger Professor of Petroleum Economics at the University of Aberdeen; previously advised the World Bank, the United Nations, and various governments
• Jim McColl, Chairman and Chief Executive of Clyde Blowers
• Professor Frances P. Ruane, Director of Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute; previously Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin
• Professor John Kay, a fellow of St John's College, Oxford, visiting professor at the London School of Economics, regular contributor to the Financial Times; previously Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Professor at the London Business School and the University of Oxford
• Crawford Beveridge, Executive Vice President and Chairman of Sun Microsystems in Europe, the Middle East and Africa; previously Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise
• Professor Finn Kydland, Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara; awarded the Nobel Prize for his work in dynamic macroeconomics
• Professor Sir James Mirrlees, Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and distinguished professor-at-large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on economic models and equations about situations where information is asymmetrical or incomplete

External links

• Scotland's new Council of Economic Advisers: official site