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Personal statement

Jo茫o is a Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow and Deputy Director at the Fraser of Allander Institute, where he works on fiscal issues, macroeconomics and business engagement.

Jo茫o has over 10 years' experience as an applied economist. Previously, he was a Senior Fiscal Analyst at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), where he led on analysis of long-term sustainability of the UK's public finances and on the effect of economic developments and fiscal policy on the UK's medium-term outlook. At the OBR, he also worked on Brexit-related modelling for the UK's new external tariff, and was the lead forecaster for public spending. Jo茫o had previously worked at HM Revenue and Customs on tax modelling and tax gap estimation, and has experience in economic consulting.

Jo茫o has a PhD in Economics from Birkbeck, University of London. His research focusses on determining the impact of government spending on economic growth, for which he has collected and used archival data from the UK Parliament.

Jo茫o's main areas of expertise include econometric analysis, tax and spending modelling, macroeconomic forecasting, government debt sustainability analysis, demand modelling and economic statistics. Jo茫o is regularly asked to provide expert evidence to the Scottish and UK Parliaments through the Finance and Public Administration Committee and the Scottish Affairs Committee, and is a member of the ScotStat Board.