Clare Lombardelli named deputy governor of Bank of England
by Phillip Inman from Economics | The Guardian on (#6JZVT)
Ex-Treasury official and adviser to David Cameron will replace Ben Broadbent, making MPC majority female for first time
The Bank of England's interest-rate-setting committee is set to become majority female for the first time, after the appointment of a former key adviser to David Cameron and George Osborne as one of its deputy governors.
Clare Lombardelli, the chief economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), will sit on the nine-member monetary policy committee (MPC) when she joins as the Bank's next deputy governor for monetary policy.
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