Jack Meaning
UK Chief Economist
Barclays
Bio:
Jack Meaning is Barclays’ UK Chief Economist, responsible for devising and delivering the bank’s view on the macro-outlook for the UK economy. He joined Barclays in 2023 from the Bank of England, where he spent three years as the Economic Advisor to the BoE’s Chief Economist. He also led the team that designed and evaluated the Bank’s monetary policy tools. In 2022, Jack coauthored the now international, best-selling pop-econ book Can’t We Just Print More Money? Jack has published a number of academic papers and earned his PhD in Economics from the University of Kent, where he was awarded the prestigious ESRC scholarship. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.