Tutor Biography
Robert Chote
Key speaker for Economics
Biography
Robert 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, 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.