Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson has expertise across a range of issues in the economics of the public sector. He joined Frontier from HM Treasury where he was director responsible for Environment, Transport and Public Sector Pay and Pensions. While there he worked with both Sir Nick Stern on his review of the economics of climate change and with Sir Rod Eddington on his review of the role of transport in the economy. He was also the Treasury's Chief micro-economist and deputy head of the Government Economic Service. Prior to that Paul was Chief Economist at the Department for Education and Skills where he oversaw the department's economics, statistics and research on all aspects of education and skills policy. Paul spent ten years at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, where he was Deputy Director, researching and writing extensively on pensions, welfare, tax and inequality. He has also been head of regulatory economics at the FSA.