- Rachel Lomax
Janis Rachel Lomax (born
15 July 1945 ) is a British economist and government official who has served as Deputy Governor of theBank of England since1 July 2003 [Rachel Lomax's biography at the Bank of England : http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/biographies/lomax.htm] .Early life
After attending
Cheltenham Ladies' College , Lomax graduated fromGirton College, Cambridge with an MA in 1966, and obtained an MSc in Economics from theLondon School of Economics in 1968.Career
Before joining the Bank, she was Permanent Secretary at the
Department for Transport , having moved there with her Secretary of StateAlistair Darling , MP when prime ministerTony Blair , MP reshuffled his cabinet following the resignation—in highly-charged and controversial circumstances—of theSecretary of State for Transport Stephen Byers , MP.Between 1999-2002 Lomax was permanent secretary at the
Department for Work and Pensions (previously the Department of Social Security) and, from 1996-9, at theWelsh Office where she oversaw the setting up of theNational Assembly for Wales . She was a Vice President and Chief of Staff to the President of theWorld Bank in 1995-6 and Head of the Economic and Domestic Secretariat at theCabinet Office in 1994. Her earlier career was spent atHM Treasury , which she joined in 1968 and where she worked on a wide range of macro economic, monetary, and financial issues. She was Principal Private Secretary to theChancellor of the Exchequer , theRt Hon Nigel Lawson , in the mid 1980s, and Deputy Chief Economic Adviser in the early 1990s.Personal life
Rachel Lomax is on the Board of the
Royal National Theatre and ofDe Montfort University . In June 2007 she received anhonorary degree from theUniversity of Glasgow . She has two sons (one is a doctor and the other a DJ). She married Michael Lomax, and is now divorced.References
External links
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2004/09/25/ccprof25.xml&sSheet=/money/2004/09/25/ixcoms.html "Telegraph" article September 25 2004]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2003/nov/22/money.interviews "Guardian" article November 22 2003]
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