William Ellis is a senior economist at IPPR working in macroeconomics.

He previously worked across government, consultancy, and academia, including roles at HM Treasury and Oxford Economics. His work spans monetary and fiscal policy, migration and labour markets, and the risk and implications of automation. This experience includes work in applied econometrics, co-authoring peer-reviewed research on automation and workplace governance, published in Research Policy.

He holds an MSc in Economics from University College London and a first-class BSc from the University of Leeds.