Dr Andrew Lilico is the Chief Economist of Policy Exchange. He was previously the Managing Director of Europe Economics, and has also worked as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Institute of Directors, as a business analyst for two plastics multinationals, as a mathematical chemist for ICI, and as an opera singer for Opera New Zealand.
He is a member of the IEA/Sunday Times Shadow Monetary Policy Committee, is one of Europe's top experts on the economics of financial regulation (having led the teams assessing for the European Parliament the impact of the Financial Services Action Plan, led one of the two large projects for the European Commission on the same, and led the project for the Financial Services Authority on the impact of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) and is a leading UK authority on cost of capital analysis (advising Ofwat on the cost of capital for the water industry, the CAA on the costs of capital for the London Airports, and Ofcom regarding BT, Sky Digital, and others).
His first degree was from St John's College, Oxford, and his doctorate was from University College London (where he has also lectured in Money and Banking, Macroeconomics, and Corporate Finance). He also has a Masters degree in Philosophy from the University of London.
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