Sam Beckett
Biography
Sam was appointed as Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury in May 2023.
Prior to this, she was Second Permanent Secretary at the ONS and the Deputy Chief Executive at the UK Statistics Authority in September 2020. In this role, Sam looked after Economic, Social and Environmental Statistics, alongside corporate services. Between 2018 and 2023, she was also joint head of the Government Economic Service. Directly prior to ONS, she was acting Permanent Secretary at BEIS, where, among other things, she oversaw the COVID-19 response. Prior to that she was the Director General at BEIS responsible for the Department’s broad and complex EU-exit preparations.
Sam has over 25 years’ experience in BEIS, Cabinet Office and HM Treasury in roles spanning micro and macro-economics, strategy, policy and corporate services delivery. Sam has a degree from New College, Oxford and an MSc in Economics from the LSE. She was made a Companion of the Bath (CB) in 2020.
Previous roles in government
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Chief Economic Adviser, Head of the GES and Second Permanent Secretary
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Acting Permanent Secretary, BEIS
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Director General, Trade, International, the Union and Analysis, BEIS
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Director General, EU Exit and Analysis, BEIS
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Joint-Head of the GES
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Director General, International, Growth and Analysis, BEIS
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Director General, Market Frameworks, BEIS
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Director General, Economics and Markets, BIS