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Ed Balls to speak on macroeconomic policy in York

Posted on 21 January 2004

Ed Balls, Chief Economic Advisory to the Treasury, will give a free public lecture on macroeconomic policy at the University of York on Friday 23 January.

This is the first talk of the Dixon Lecture Series, which will focus on economic issues. Ed Balls' lecture is entitled: 'Stability, Growth and UK Fiscal Policy'.

Ed Balls has been Chief Economic Advisor to the Treasury since 1999 and is also Chairman of the IMF Deputies' Committee and represents the UK as the Chancellor's Deputy at the G20.

He was formerly a student at Keble College, Oxford and Harvard University, where he was a Kennedy Scholar and a Teaching Fellow. He joined the staff of the Financial Times as an economics leader writer and columnist in 1990 before joining Gordon Brown's office in 1990.

The Dixon Lecture will be held at 5.30pm on Friday 23 January in PX/001 in the Physics/Electronics building. All are welcome.

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