Joe Grice,

Joe Grice is the chief economist and Executive Director responsible for Social and Public Services Analysis and Reporting at the UK Office for National Statistics.

2. Joe spent most of his career at the UK Treasury. His last two posts were as Director of Macroeconomic Policy (till 2000) and then as Chief Economist and Director of Public Services till December 2003.

3. In January 2004, he was seconded to the Office for National Statistics to lead the team supporting Sir Tony Atkinson’s review of the measurement of public services output and productivity. After the review was completed in January 2005, he was appointed as the first Executive Director of the UK Centre for the Measurement of Government Activity (UKCeMGA), the group within ONS responsible for progressing the agenda to which the challenges posed by the Atkinson Review gave rise.

4. Since May 2006, he has been responsible for a larger directorate within ONS which deals with social and public service statistics and analysis, including the work of UKCeMGA.

5. Joe is also the president of the European Union Economic Policy Committee and chairman of Working Party 1 of the OECD Economic Policy Committee.