Christopher Allsopp (6 April 1941--ca 5 March 2025https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/article/in-memoriam-christopher-allsopp retrieved 20th March 2025) was a British economist. He was Director of the

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from 2006-2013, was Emeritus Fellow of

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, and a Reader in Economic Policy at the

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. A former director of the

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(1997–2000) and Member of its

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(2000–2003), he has recently completed a Review of Statistics for Economic Policymaking (the 'Allsopp Review'). He wa the Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and a Director of Oxford Economic Forecasting. Previous activities include working at HM Treasury, the OECD and the Bank of England (where he was Adviser from 1980–83) as well as extensive involvement with domestic and international policy issues as consultant to international institutions and private sector organisations. He has published extensively on monetary, fiscal and exchange rate issues as well as the problems of economic reform and transition. His involvement in the economics of oil and other energy issues goes back to the shocks of the 1970s.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Allsopp, Christopher Living people British economists Fellows of New College, Oxford 1941 births Academics of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Alumni of Nuffield College, Oxford