Anna Leach

Anna Leach is the Deputy Chief Economist of the Confederation of British Industry, who heads the economic intelligence team that produces and analyses the CBI’s economic surveys and provides the CBI’s macroeconomic forecast. She has worked at the CBI since 2008, when she joined as Fiscal Economist working on the CBI’s budget submissions and public finance analysis. She moved on to head the economic analysis team in 2012, leading the CBI’s assessment of near-term economic conditions.

Anna previously worked in the Government Economic Service (GES) in various roles at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), where she worked on UK local area labour markets and international labour markets, and at the Treasury, where she worked on business sector analysis and macroeconomic communications. While at DWP, she undertook a secondment to the Treasury Select Committee and worked on their inquiry into the private equity industry and their early inquiries at the start of the financial crisis.

A leading expert on monetary policy, Anna is working with the CBI to spread economic intelligence that will support businesses in growing and thriving. She is also a member of the CBI Executive Committee, Management, Programme Delivery and Membership Boards, ensuring that economic resources are effectively deployed throughout the country. 

Now hired to share her expertise on monetary policy, economics and finance as a keynote speaker, Anna uses her decorated career to inform her expertise. From macroeconomics to stakeholder engagement, there is little about finance and economics that Anna does not know. When looking to hire an expert speaker on policy analysis, macroeconomic analysis and monetary policy, hire Anna Leach today!