I am an economist working across academia, policy and the public debate. I am Research Director at the Resolution Foundation, a non-partisan think tank focused on improving living standards for low-to-middle income households in the UK, and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nottingham.
Between 2018 and 2019 I was Research Director at WorldRemit, a fintech. Before that I worked at the Bank of England (2001–2018), where I was Head of International Research. At Nottingham I taught monetary theory and practice. I hold a PhD from the London School of Economics, supervised by Silvana Tenreyro.
My research uses large-scale firm-level and individual-level datasets to understand how the macroeconomy responds to structural shocks. Current projects include the Decision Maker Panel, a collaboration between Stanford, Nottingham and the Bank of England surveying thousands of UK firms. A milestone project was the Economy 2030 Inquiry, a major joint programme with the LSE that charted a new course for UK economic policy, culminating in the Ending Stagnation report.
I serve as Business Manager of the Review of Economic Studies and am affiliated with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at LSE.
In 2005-7 I worked with the UN Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), helping to run economic policy during Kosovo's transition to independence. I have since consulted to the Kosovo Ministry of Finance and Central Bank of Kosovo, and provided technical assistance through the Bank of England's Centre for Central Banking Studies to Ukraine and central banks in low- and middle-income countries.
I am available for comment on the UK economy, labour markets, inflation, productivity, the minimum wage, Brexit, AI and demographic change. For interview requests, contact the Resolution Foundation press office or the University of Nottingham media team, or you can contact me directly at gregorythwaites@gmail.com.