Sir Kenneth Ernest Berrill GBE, KCB, (28 August 1920 – 30 April 2009), was an English economist and public servant.

[1] He won a scholarship to University College London to train as a geography teacher, working at Romford greyhound stadium in the evenings.

[2][3] After taking his MA, Berrill was a fellow and bursar at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, moving in 1962 to King's, where he remained until 1969.

At this time, he was developing a reputation as an economic adviser, including for the World Bank, OECD, and for overseas governments.

[4] Throughout his career, he held a number of posts including chief economic adviser to the Treasury in the closing months of Edward Heath's premiership, and head of the Central Policy Review Staff from 1974 to 1980 and the chairmanship of the Securities and Investments Board until 1988.