After Dinner Speakers: Andrew Dilnot, Anna Walker, Tom Robinson

He joined the Institute in 1981, and in the first half of the 1980s wrote the Institute's computer model of the tax and benefit system. He has been Director of IFS since 1991. His main research interests lie in general government taxation and public spending policies, and in the impact of taxation and spending on incomes and behaviour. He has taught at a number of universities in the UK and overseas. He edits the annual IFS assessment of the Chancellor's options for the Budget, the IFS Green Budget. He is a Presenter of BBC Radio 4's Analysis Programme and their new numbers programme, More or Less, and a regular contributor to other broadcast and printed media. He is a member of the Social Security Advisory Committee, and the government's Evidence Based Policy Panel, has served on many committees of inquiry, and on the Councils of the Royal Economic Society and Queen Mary and Westfield College. He was awarded a CBE in 2000 for services to economics and economic policy.