Gertjan Willem Vlieghe was born in Belgium in May 1971,[1] and received a PhD from the London School of Economics.
[2] Vlieghe was an economic assistant to Mervyn King at the Bank of England.
[2][3] Later, he worked as a senior economist at Brevan Howard, a hedge fund based in London.
[2][3] In July 2015, it was announced that he would replace David Miles in September 2015 as an "external member", bringing in expertise from outside the Bank, in the nine-member Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of the Bank of England.
[2][3] Vlieghe was hired as an economic advisor to the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt in 2022.