>From the Treasury Press Release page on their web site
CHANCELLOR ANNOUNCES NEW APPOINTMENT TO THE MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE
Dr Sushil Wadhwani has been appointed to the Bank of England's Monetary
Policy Committee, the Chancellor Gordon Brown announced today.
Dr Wadhwani is currently Director of Research at Tudor Proprietary Trading
L.L.C., a fund management company. He is also a partner and a member of the
management committee of the Tudor Group.
He was educated at the London School of Economics (LSE), was Reader in the
Working of Financial Markets at the LSE from 1984-91 and subsequently
Director of Equity Strategy at Goldman Sachs International from 1991-4.
Dr Wadhwani will take up his membership of the MPC on 1 June. He will
replace Sir Alan Budd who has been appointed Provost of The Queen's College,
Oxford.
The Chancellor also announced that Ian Plenderleith (Executive Director,
Financial Market Operations at the Bank) has been reappointed to the MPC for
a further three year term.
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