Mark Robson appointed to HEFCE Board

03 July 2012

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has announced a new member of the HEFCE Board.

Mark Robson replaces outgoing Board member Paul Wellings who left the Board in December 2011.‌

He is head of the Bank of England's statistics division and honorary treasurer of the Royal Economic Society. He joined the bank in 1995.

Since then Mark has also been a member of the Council of City University, London (2002-11); Treasurer and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford, and honorary treasurer of the Royal Statistical Society (2003-07). 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.