Speakers

Marcus Wright heads up the Forecasting and Scenarios team within Economics, using economics to help shape the Bank’s strategy, developing scenarios to support numerous processes, including budgeting, I FRS 9, ICAAP and regulatory stress tests. He has been a member of the Economics team since 2011, developing expertise across a wide range of economic dynamics shaping the UK’s economic performance, including monetary policy, housing and labour markets. He has previously worked for an investment trust, where he covered China, emerging markets and commodities. He has also worked in consultancy, undertaking impact assessments of public sector interventions in the economy. His other areas of particular interest are the energy transition, geopolitics and the US economy. He has over 20 years professional experience as an economist and holds a first class degree in economic science from the University of Aberdeen.