Grace Blakeley

Research Fellow

Grace is a former member of staff at IPPR.

Grace was a Research Fellow at IPPR’s Centre for Economic Justice.

She specialises in macroeconomic policy, with a particular focus on finance.

Her areas of expertise include:

· Macroeconomic policy

· Financial regulation

· Regional economics

Grace graduated from Oxford with a First Class Honours Degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, after which point she joined KPMG’s Public Sector and Healthcare Practice as a management consultant. She spent a year working on regional economic policy for IPPR North in Manchester.

Grace has authored several reports for IPPR, including On Borrowed Time: Finance and the UK’s Current Account Deficit, Fair Dues: Rebalancing Business Taxation in the UK, and Paying for our Progress: How the Northern Powerhouse can be Financed and Funded.

More from this author:

  1. Who cares? Financialisation in social care

    Social care’s reliance on private bed provision is growing, and larger providers – particularly those funded by private equity firms – are becoming more dominant.

  2. The UK in the global economy

    In recent years our economy has been growing, but most people are no better off than a decade ago. For many people the economy does not appear to be working at all.

  3. A Wealth of Difference: Reforming the taxation of wealth

    The UK is a wealthy nation but that wealth is very unevenly distributed. This has negative implications for both economic prosperity and justice. These issues are set to become more important as technological change, stagnating wages and…