Robert Chote
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Robert Chote is a British economist. He graduated from Cambridge in 1989. Chote was appointed director of IFS in October 2002. He was formerly an adviser and speechwriter to the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund since 1999, working first for Stanley Fischer and then for Anne Krueger. Between 1995 and 1999, he was Economics Editor of the Financial Times. Previously, he served as Economics Correspondent of the Independent and a columnist on the Independent on Sunday, where he was named Young Financial Journalist of the Year by the Wincott Foundation.
He is a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and served as a member of the Statistics Advisory Committee of the Office for National Statistics. He has carried out consultancy work for organizations including the United Nations and Commonwealth Secretariat.
He is married to Sharon White.