Andrew Sentance CBE (born 1958) is a British business economist. He is currently Senior Adviser to Cambridge Econometrics. From November 2011 until October 2018, he was Senior Economic Adviser to PwC. He was an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England from October 2006 to May 2011. Education Sentance was born in Bebington on the Wirral and grew up in south-east London. He was educated at Eltham College, Clare College, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. At Eltham College, he studied economics, mathematics and history at A Level, and at Clare College gained a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) with honours (2.1) in economics, graduating in 1980. His postgraduate studies were carried out at the London School of Economics, completing a Master of Science (M.Sc.) in economics in 1982, and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1987 with the thesis The Government as employer: a macroeconomic analysis. He is a part-time professorial fellow at the University of Warwick, based at Warwick Business School, and holds a visiting professorship at Royal Holloway, University of London. He was awarded an honorary D.Sc. by the University of London in 2008 and an honorary Doctorate of Business Administration by Anglia Ruskin University in 2017. He is also a former vice-president and former chairman of the Society of Business Economists. Career Before joining the Bank of England, Sentance held various economic positions. He was head of economic policy and director of economic affairs at the CBI, where he worked from September 1986 until December 1993. In January 1994, he joined London Business School, where he was a senior research fellow and subsequently director of the Centre for Economic Forecasting. In 1998, he joined British Airways, where he was chief economist and head of environmental affairs. He was one of the five senior managers appointed in 2001 to prepare the company's "Future Size and Shape" turnaround plan, and chaired the investment committee of the BA Pension Funds from 2002 until 2006. In November 2011, Sentance joined Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) as their senior economic adviser. He retired from PwC at the end of October 2018 and joined Cambridge Econometrics as a part-time Senior Adviser in October 2019. Advice to government Sentance was a founder member of the Treasury's Panel of Independent Forecasters which provided advice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer during the Conservative Government in the 1990s. He also acted as