Christine McDaniel is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment Global Practice of the World Bank Group, prior to which she was a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center. She is a former Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Treasury and senior trade economist in the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
The Growth Commission is co-hosting a major one-day conference with the Institute of International Monetary Research in March 2026 which will be of interest to anyone wanting to understand the UK’s current economic plight and what could be done to fix it. The conference has the theme ‘Mending Britain’s Broken Economy’ and a stellar line-up […]
Following Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement today, The Growth Commission has criticised the Chancellor for wasting an opportunity to make the recovery more sustainable and reiterated calls on the Government to eradicate barriers to growth which ministers themselves have chosen to impose. However, the 13-strong body of independent economists has nonetheless welcomed the Chancellor’s more optimistic […]
The Growth Commission today unveils the policy priorities the Government should be pursuing to deliver growth ahead of the Chancellor’s Spring Statement. As Rachel Reeves puts the finishing touches to the Statement she is due to deliver next Tuesday, the 13-strong body of independent economists concludes that ‘the cyclical recovery is likely to prove fragile […]
The Growth Commission is today urging the UK Government to abandon proposals to align British Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) regulations with those of the European Union (EU). The eminent group of thirteen independent economists are making the call after calculating that such a move would likely cause a £15 billion hit to the UK economy. […]