Derek Scott

Derek Scott is a member of the advisory board and economic adviser to Vestra Wealth LLP, a non-executive director of Liberty Syndicate Management Limited and visiting professor at Cass Business School. He was formerly economic adviser to Prime Minister, Tony Blair and before that Director of European Economics at Barclay’s de Zoete Wedd (BZW). Other posts include, economic adviser to KPMG, chief economist at Shell UK and international policy adviser at Shell International and special adviser to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Denis Healey, from 1976-79. He is the author of “Off Whitehall” (I.B. Tauris 2004) a book on the economics of EMU and the politics of Europe.