Sir Robert Chote is the Chair of the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council and the UK Statistics Authority.
He is a visiting Professor at King's College London and Chair of the external advisory group of the Irish Parliamentary Budget Office.
He was Chairman of the UK Office for Budget Responsibility from 2010 to 2020 and of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) network of parliamentary budget officials and independent fiscal institutions from 2017 to 2020.
He was previously Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 2002 to 2010, adviser to senior management at the International Monetary Fund, and was also economics editor of the Independent and Financial Times newspapers.