Huw Pill

{{Short description|Welsh economist}}

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| alma_mater = University College, Oxford (B.A.)
Stanford University (PhD)

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Huw Pill is a Welsh{{cite news |title=The Bank of Wales? Welshman Huw Pill appointed Bank of England's new chief economist |url=https://nation.cymru/news/the-bank-of-wales-welshman-huw-pill-appointed-bank-of-englands-new-chief-economist/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |date=2 September 2021}}{{cite news |last1=Barnett |first1=Jack |title=Another Goldman banker or a much needed hawkish voice: Who is Huw Pill? |url=https://www.cityam.com/another-goldman-banker-or-a-much-needed-hawkish-voice-who-is-huw-pill/ |access-date=28 April 2023 |agency=City AM |date=2 September 2021}} economist, and the chief economist of the Bank of England since September 2021, succeeding Andy Haldane.{{cite news |last1=Elliott |first1=Larry |title=Bank of England appoints Huw Pill as chief economist |url=https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/01/bank-of-england-appoints-huw-pill-chief-economist-goldman-sachs |access-date=2 September 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=1 September 2021}}

Pill studied philosophy, politics and economics at University College, Oxford, and graduated in 1989.{{Cite web|title=Huw Pill {{!}} VOX, CEPR Policy Portal|url=https://voxeu.org/users/huwpill0|access-date=2021-10-08|website=voxeu.org}} He earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University in 1995.{{cite web|title=Huw Pill|url=https://www.niesr.ac.uk/users/pill-h|access-date=13 September 2021|website=National Institute of Economic and Social Research|archive-date=13 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210913092616/https://www.niesr.ac.uk/users/pill-h|url-status=dead}}

He worked as an economist at the Bank of England from 1990 to 1992. After graduating from Stanford, he was appointed assistant professor of business administration at Harvard University. He left Harvard to work at the European Central Bank (ECB) for a couple of years and returned to Harvard as an associate professor in 2003. In 2004, he worked at the ECB again and left to become chief European economist for Goldman Sachs in 2011. From 2019 to 2021 he worked as senior lecturer at Harvard.[https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/7479/documents/78489/default/ Huw Pill]. Retrieved 8 October 2021.