Sir Leo Pliatzky KCB (22 August 1919 – 4 May 1999) was an English civil servant whose career spanned 1947–77, 27 of those years in HM Treasury.
Rising anti-Semitism stoked by British fascists like Oswald Mosley led to his parents changing their surname to Green, but young Leo refused.
[4] Following the war, Pliatzky worked briefly as research secretary with the Fabian Society before beginning his career in the civil service.
[3] In 1953, he was transferred to the overseas finance division and spent the next 13 years dealt with "uncertain balance of payments amid competing calls on Britain's resources diminished by war and strained by a nascent welfare state, the ending of empire, and the cold war."
[1] According to Joel Barnett, Chief Secretary to the Treasury from 1974–79, "Sir Leo was a Keynesian who believed that the division of labour worked out at the centre of Whitehall in the 1950s was as close to administrative perfection as we are likely to get.