Sir Frederick William Leith Ross (1887–1968) was chief economic adviser to the UK government from 1932 to 1945.
Leith Ross graduated with a double first from Balliol College, Oxford. He was the brother of the artist Harry Leith-Ross and the father of the author Prudence Leith-Ross.
Between 1932 and 1945 Leith Ross was chief economic advisor to the UK government, he is known for advancing the economic theory of "Treasury View", popular in the 1930s. Leith Ross was active in negotiations with Germany prior to the Second World War but is best remembered for the "Leith Ross mission" to China in 1935, when he was the UK's chief representative in a mission to persuade China to reform its currency.[1][2]
His 1968 autobiography is entitled Money Talks: Fifty years of international finance.