Dave Ramsden

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Dave Ramsden (born 1964) is a senior British civil servant, serving, from June 2007, as the Managing Director of HM Treasury's new Macroeconomic and Fiscal Policy Directorate and joint Head of the Government Economic Service with another Chief Economist in government (due to appointed shortly). The previous head of the Government Economic Service was Sir Nicholas Stern.

He has been the Treasury's Chief Macroeconomist and Director of the Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy Group since January 2006. He began his civil service career in the Government Economic Service in the Department of Health and Social Security and joined the Treasury in 1988. He has worked on a wide range of macroeconomic and microeconomic policy issues relating to the UK and European economies including fiscal and tax policy and the public finances, the business sector and labour markets. He played a leading role on the UK's policy agendas for the EU stability and growth pact and economic reform and, from 2001 to 2002, he was a member of the EU's Economic Policy committee. Between 1999 and 2003 he led the Treasury's work on the Assessment of the Five Economic Tests and 18 EMU studies. This analysis was the basis for the Government's decision on UK membership of the single currency. He was awarded the CBE in the 2004 New Year's Honours for his work on EMU.