Professor Jagjit S. Chadha OBE is Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and one of the UK's leading economists on monetary and fiscal policy, financial markets and economic policymaking. He served as Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) from 2016 to 2024 and has previously held professorships at the universities of Kent and St Andrews and a fellowship at Clare College, Cambridge.

Professor Chadha has worked on monetary policy at the Bank of England and as Chief Quantitative Economist at BNP Paribas. He has served as Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Committee and as an academic adviser to HM Treasury, the Bank of England, the Bank for International Settlements and a number of other central banks. His work has focused particularly on the design of monetary, fiscal and financial policy and the relationship between rigorous economic research and effective public policy.

He was awarded an OBE for services to economics and economic policy in the 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours. As Chair of the Gambling Policy Committee, Professor Chadha will oversee the Committee's programme of work and its commitment to independent, evidence-based and practical policy recommendations.