Sir Robert William Chote (born 24 January 1968[2]) is a British economist and chair of the UK Statistics Authority.
[5][6] Chote completed his secondary education at St Mary's College in Bitterne Park, Southampton.
[8] From 1999 to 2002, he served as an adviser to the senior management of the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., where he worked under Stanley Fischer and Anne Krueger.
In March 2021, he began as the inaugural chair of the Northern Ireland Fiscal Council, which was established to provide independent scrutiny of the NI public finances.
[15] Since 1997, Chote has been married to Dame Sharon White,[16][17] chairman of the John Lewis Partnership and previously the chief executive of Ofcom.