Robert Chote
| Robert Chote | |
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| Chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility | |
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Assumed office 4 October 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Sir Alan Budd |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 24 January 1968 |
| Nationality | British |
| Spouse(s) | Sharon White (m.1997) |
| Alma mater |
Queens' College, Cambridge City University, London Johns Hopkins University |
Robert Chote (born 24 January 1968) is a British economist and current chairman of the Office of Budget Responsibility.
Chote completed his secondary education at St Mary's College in Bitterne Park, Southampton. In 1989 he graduated from Queens' College, Cambridge (where he was president of Cambridge University Social Democrats, and, after the merger of the SDP with the Liberals, chair of Cambridge University Social and Liberal Democrats). He then studied at City University, London, and at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.
Chote began his career as a reporter and columnist at The Independent, and was named Young Financial Journalist of the Year in 1993 when working for the Independent on Sunday by the Wincott Foundation. He then moved to the Financial Times to become Economics Editor in 1995.
From 1999 he served as an adviser to the senior management of the International Monetary Fund in Washington DC, where he worked under Stanley Fischer and Anne Krueger. Chote was appointed director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies in October 2002. He has also served as a member of the Statistics Advisory Committee of the Office for National Statistics.
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