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Robert Chote
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B.A. Economics, Queens' College, Cambridge, 1989

Robert Chote has been Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since October 2002.

Robert is also a member of the Finance Committee of the University of Cambridge and the Advisory Board of the UK Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity at the Office for National Statistics. He is a Governor of the National Institute for Economic and Social Research.

Robert began his career as a reporter and columnist on the Independent and the Independent on Sunday and was named Young Financial Journalist of the Year in 1993. He moved to the Financial Times to become Economics Editor in 1995. Between 1999 and 2002 he served as an adviser to the senior management of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC.

Robert was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and City University in the UK, and at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in the US.

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