Dr Graham Gudgin

Chief Economic Adviser

Dr Graham Gudgin is Policy Exchange’s Chief Economic Adviser. He is currently Honorary Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) in the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge. He is also visiting Professor at the University of Ulster and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre, and was senior Economic Adviser at Oxford Economics from 2007 to 2015. He was Director of the ESRC-funded Northern Ireland Economic Research Centre from 1985 to 1998 when he became Special Adviser to the First Minister in the NI Assembly until 2002. Prior to this he was economics fellow at Selwyn College, Cambridge and a member of the Cambridge Economic Policy Group under Wynne Godley. He is the author of a large number of books, reports and journal articles on regional economic growth in the UK, the growth of small firms and electoral systems. He is currently working with Ken Coutts on a macro-economic model and forecasts for the UK economy and on the economic impact of Brexit.

Why be afraid of No Deal?

by Dr Graham Gudgin | Nov 19, 2018

Related Content The risks can be managed and we still have some good bargaining chips When the EU Withdrawal Agreement comes before Parliament in a few weeks, MPs will be asked to accept the deal on offer – or to risk ‘no deal’. The latter has been almost universally...

The Irish Border and the Principle of Consent

by Dr Graham Gudgin | Nov 1, 2018

Read Publication It is the EU’s Brexit position which most threatens the terms of the Good Friday Agreement. In a new research note with a Foreword by Rt Hon Lord Trimble, The Irish border and the principle of consent, Dr Graham Gudgin, Policy Exchange’s Chief...

What you didn’t know about the Irish Border – how technology can resolve the issue of the North/South frontier post-Brexit

by Dr Graham Gudgin | Sep 3, 2018

The Irish border sticks out like a sore thumb in the Brexit negotiations. The nature of the problem that is proving so hard to solve is never fully clear. Equally unclear is why on earth it is a major issue in the withdrawal stage of the Brexit process rather than...

What Does Chequers Mean for Northern Ireland?

by Dr Graham Gudgin | Jul 16, 2018

It has been an enduring mystery since last December’s Joint Progress Report why the UK Government conceded so much on the Irish land border. The concessions effectively forced the Government to propose at Chequers that the UK would be bound by EU regulations on...

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