[3] Pill studied philosophy, politics and economics at University College, Oxford, and graduated in 1989.
[4] He earned a doctorate in economics from Stanford University in 1995.
After graduating from Stanford, he was appointed assistant professor of business administration at Harvard University.
He left Harvard to work at the European Central Bank (ECB) for a couple of years and returned to Harvard as an associate professor in 2003.
In 2004, he worked at the ECB again and left to become chief European economist for Goldman Sachs in 2011.