Grace Blakeley
Research FellowGrace was a Research Fellow at IPPR’s Centre for Economic Justice.
She specialises in macroeconomic policy, with a particular focus on finance.
Her areas of expertise include:
· Macroeconomic policy
· Financial regulation
· Regional economics
Grace graduated from Oxford with a First Class Honours Degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, after which point she joined KPMG’s Public Sector and Healthcare Practice as a management consultant. She spent a year working on regional economic policy for IPPR North in Manchester.
Grace has authored several reports for IPPR, including On Borrowed Time: Finance and the UK’s Current Account Deficit, Fair Dues: Rebalancing Business Taxation in the UK, and Paying for our Progress: How the Northern Powerhouse can be Financed and Funded.
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