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Joe Grice
Joe Grice
Executive Director, Atkinson Review & Deputy Head, Government Economic Service
Joe Grice was educated at Oxford and then at the University of Chicago. Most of his career has been spent at HM Treasury, which he joined in 1972, though he also spent three years in the 1980s working as chief economist for a British merchant bank, Baring Brothers. After a succession of junior posts at the Treasury, he was promoted to be Head of the Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate division in 1986, remaining in that post until after sterling's accession to the ERM. In 1991, he became Head of the Health public expenditure division, overseeing public spending on the UK health care system, at the time of the National Health Service's movement towards a quasi-market system of purchasers and providers. In 1996, he was promoted to be Director of Macroeconomic Policy, implementing the incoming Labour Government's new fiscal and monetary frameworks. In 2000, he became the Treasury's Chief Economist and Director of Public Services, also serving as deputy head of the UK Government Economic Service. In January of this year, he became Executive Director of the Atkinson Review, an independent review of measurement of public services output, being carried out for the UK National Statistician by Sir Tony Atkinson.
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