Ben Broadbent
{{Short description|British economist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}}
{{Use British English|date=February 2015}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
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| office1 = Deputy Governor of the Bank of England for Monetary Policy
| governor1 = Mark Carney
Andrew Bailey
| term_start1 = 1 July 2014
| term_end1 = 30 June 2024
| predecessor1 = Charlie Bean
| successor1 = Clare Lombardelli
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| office2 = Member of the Monetary Policy Committee
| term_start2 = 1 June 2011 {{cite web|url=http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_30_11.htm|title=HM Treasury Press Release|publisher=HM Treasury|date=7 March 2011|accessdate=29 September 2024|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111204095759/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_30_11.htm|archivedate=4 December 2011}}
| term_end2 = 30 June 2024
| governor2 = Mervyn King
Mark Carney
Andrew Bailey
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1965|2|1}}
| alma_mater = Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Harvard University
| profession = Economist, central & investment banker
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Benjamin Robert Hamond Broadbent (born 1 February 1965)[http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U254337 BROADBENT, Benjamin Robert Hamond], Who's Who 2014, A & C Black, 2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 is a British economist and has been Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy at the Bank of England since 1 July 2014.{{cite web|url=http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/publications/Pages/news/2014/057.aspx|title=News Release - Three senior appointments to the Bank of England|publisher=Bank of England|date=18 March 2014|accessdate=18 March 2014}} He had previously been an external member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee between June 2011 and June 2014.
Early life
He attended St Paul's School, London from 1977 to 1982, gained a first-class honours degree in economics from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1988, and then studied for a Ph.D. at Harvard University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Career
After working for HM Treasury, he worked for the Bank of England, before becoming an assistant professor at Columbia University. He joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as Senior European Economist, a position he held until 2011. In June 2011, he replaced the departing Andrew Sentance on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee.{{cite web|url=http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/press_30_11.htm|title=Chancellor appoints Ben Broadbent as external member of the Monetary Policy Committee|publisher=HM Treasury|date=7 March 2011|accessdate=7 March 2011}}
Broadbent was reappointed, for a second term, Deputy Governor for the Bank of England on 31 May 2019.
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Category:People educated at St Paul's School, London
Category:Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
Category:Harvard University alumni
Category:Columbia University staff
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