Background
Gertjan Willem Vlieghe was born in May 1971, and received a Doctor of Philosophy from the London School of Economics.
Gertjan Willem Vlieghe was born in May 1971, and received a Doctor of Philosophy from the London School of Economics.
London School of Economics.
Vlieghe was an economic assistant to Lord Mervyn King at the Bank of England. He then worked as a bond strategist and director at the Deutsche Bank. Later, he worked as a senior economist at Brevan Howard, a hedge fund based in London.
On 28 July 2015, it was announced that he would replace David Miles in September 2015 as an “external member”, bringing in expertise from outside the Bank, in the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England.