E15: UK — Charting a Better Path
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The UK economy is broadly perceived to have stagnated, its growth having fallen behind that of many peer nations. Productivity growth in particular has shifted from moving in lockstep with the U.S. to decoupling from it since the Global Financial Crisis. What’s behind the UK’s lackluster performance? And what’s needed to change its trajectory? Join Lucy Baldwin and Citi’s Chief UK Economist Ben Nabarro as they look under the hood of the UK economy and discuss its prospects for charting a better path.
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Lucy Baldwin is a Managing Director and Global Head of Citi Research. She is responsible for managing Citi’s global independent research across all asset classes. Lucy joined Citigroup in April 2021 from Credit Suisse, where she was Global Head of Equity Sales. Prior to Credit Suisse, she was at Bank of America as Head of European Equity Sales (2015-2019), and at Goldman Sachs as a Director of European Equity Research and in a variety of research analyst roles (2006-2015). Lucy started her career at Cazenove as an equity research analyst covering the building materials sector. She graduated from the University of Birmingham in Economics. Lucy serves as a member of Council for the University of Birmingham and sits on the Investment Sub-committee. Additionally, she is a member of the Advisory Council for the Mossavar-Rahmani Centre for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Ben Nabarro is Citi Research’s Chief UK Economist. He joined Citi in 2016 and is based in London, having previously worked on Citi’s macro-thematic research writing on issues such as inequality and migration. Ben has a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford and has also studied at Stanford University.
