At this Festival of Economics breakfast session, Catherine Mann, a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), will discuss the current state of the UK economy, what’s been happening with inflation in recent months and the response of monetary policy. The event will be taking place shortly after the MPC’s November 2026 decision on interest rates, and there will plenty of time for Q&A.

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Catherine Mann is an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England. Catherine’s academic and research affiliations include professor of the practice at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, and honorary professor at the University of Manchester and the Productivity Institute. Catherine’s research has focused on international economic relationships and outcomes, covering trade, finance, climate, productivity and inequality. She has authored or co-authored seven books, more than 60 articles and several shorter pieces and testimony. Before her appointment to the MPC, Catherine held roles at Citibank, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Federal Reserve Board. She has also worked at the World Bank and the Council of Economic Advisers at the White House.

Catherine is a member of the Society of Professional Economists in the UK, as well as the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Economic Association in the US, among others. Previously, she was chair of the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association, a member of the executive board of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, on the board of the National Association for Business Economics and of the advisory committees of the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Boston and New York.

Tickets are available upon request. If you are interested in attending this session, contact us here and we will be in touch nearer to the event.

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