Benjamin Robert Hamond Broadbent (born 1 February 1965)[2] is a British economist and has been Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy at the Bank of England since 1 July 2014.
He attended St Paul's School, London from 1977 to 1982, gained a first-class honours degree in economics from Trinity Hall, Cambridge, in 1988, and then studied for a Ph.D. at Harvard University, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
He joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as Senior European Economist, a position he held until 2011.
In June 2011, he replaced the departing Andrew Sentance on the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee.
[4] Broadbent was reappointed, for a second term, Deputy Governor for the Bank of England on 31 May 2019.