HEFCE Board member
Biography and registered interests

Mark Robson is head of the Bank of England's statistics division and honorary treasurer of the Royal Economic Society. He joined the Bank in 1995 from the OECD in Paris, where he was principal tax economist and statistician. Since then he has also been a member of the Council of City University, London (2002-11); Treasurer and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University (of which he is now an honorary research fellow) and honorary treasurer of the Royal Statistical Society (2003-7); and an IMF Expert Adviser to the Royal Thai Finance Ministry (1998-9). Previously he was in turn a mathematics tutor, HM Inspector of Taxes, Government Economic Adviser and senior manager with KPMG.

He became a Governor of London Metropolitan University in April 2010, and is currently Vice-Chair of the Board and Chair of the Finance and Resources Committee. He is a member of the governing councils of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, and of the audit committee of the London Borough of Islington. In 2010 he was appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council’s grants assessment panel, and last year to HEFCE’s Main Panel C for REF 2014.

He lives in Brockley with wife Lara and has four children.

Date appointed to the Board: 1 July 2012

Organisation in which interest exists	Nature of interest (directorship, shareholding, membership, etc.)
London Metropolitan University	Vice-Chairman
Economic and Social Research Council	Grants Assessment Panel
Institute for Fiscal Studies	Director and Charity Trustee
Royal Economic Society	Treasurer and Charity Trustee
Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford	Honorary Research Fellow
Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation	Governing Council Member
Institute of Mathematics and its Applications	Fellow
Royal Statistical Society	Fellow
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants	Fellow