Sir Noel Frederick Hall (23 December 1902 – 29 March 1983)[1] was an economist and academic who was one of Britain's earliest post-World War II specialists in business theory and education.

[1][2][3] He was then granted a Commonwealth Fund (Harkness) fellowship to study Economics at Princeton University, where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1926.

[5] Hall was UCL's Professor of Political Economy from 1935 to 1938, when he was appointed Director of the newly created National Institute of Economic and Social Research (1938–43).

[13][14] Hall's interest in management education continued during his tenure at Brasenose, and he was chairman of the first Academic Planning Board of Lancaster University.

[15] Their "milestone" recommendations significantly expanded the role of hospital pharmacists, making them responsible for ensuring their medical and nursing colleagues use drugs safely, effectively and economically,[16] and the Noel Hall working party was seen as a new style of expert committee whose use of statistics and research-based evidence was the catalyst for "monumental change".