Ms. Amanda Rowlatt

Chief Analyst, Department for Work and Pensions, UK

Amanda Rowlatt is Chief Analyst for Employment Group, Welfare and Wellbeing Group and Pensions in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). She is also Director of Child Poverty and Analysis.
Amanda has worked as an analyst in government for over 20 years. She started her career in the Overseas Development Administration, spending 2.5 years in Guyana in South America, and then returned to macro-economics, debt management, and environmental policy in HM Treasury, and a short posting to the European Commission. She moved on to be Chief Economist at the Office for National Statistics and then Chief Economist at the Competition Commission. Her next role was as Director for Trade, Europe and International Financial Institutions at the Department for International Development. Before coming to DWP towards the end of 2008, she spent a year with OXERA, a micro-economics consultancy.