(CBE)
Paul has been Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since January 2011.
He previously worked at the Financial Services Authority and as chief economist at the Department for Education and director of public spending in HM Treasury as well as deputy head of the UK Government Economic Service.
A visiting professor at University College London, Paul has published and broadcast extensively on the economics of public policy including tax, welfare, inequality and poverty, pensions, education, climate change and public finances. He is the author of major books on pensions, tax and inequality as well as a co-author of the “Mirrlees review” of tax system design.
Paul is currently a member of the Climate Change Committee, member of the Banking Standards Board and is on the Board of the Office of Tax Simplification. He has previously served on the council of the Economic and Social Research Council. He was a founder council member of the Pensions Policy Institute. He has also led reviews of the policy of auto-enrolment into pensions for the DWP and of price statistics for the UKSA.