UK Macro, Cities and Industry Outlook

Martin Beck| Lead Economist

Martin Beck is a Lead Economist at Oxford Economics. He is responsible for forecasting and monitoring the UK economy and works on a variety of UK macro-related consultancy projects. Martin contributes regular articles to a number of our publications and is also responsible for OE’s forecast for the Irish economy.

Prior to working for Oxford Economics, Martin spent almost two years at Capital Economics, where he worked on Capital’s UK macro and UK consumer services. He was responsible for producing UK macroeconomic analysis and forecasts on a national, sectoral and industry level. Before joining Capital, Martin spent 11 years as an economist in HM Treasury, where he worked in a variety of macroeconomic, microeconomic and policy roles. Martin has a first class degree in economics and a Master’s degree with distinction in economics from the University of London.

Stephen Foreman | Lead Economist

Stephen is a Lead Economist on the Industry team. Stephen is responsible for monitoring and forecasting the global motor vehicle and aerospace sectors, as well as contributing to and communicating Oxford Economics’ global industry view, and managing a number of consultancy projects for manufacturing organisations.

Stephen joined Oxford Economics from the UK civil service, where he worked for 5 years on a range of macroeconomic, fiscal, tax and welfare policy issues across HM Treasury, the Office for Budget Responsibility and the Department for Work and Pensions. Most recently he worked directly for the Treasury’s Chief Economic Adviser and Head of the Government Economic Service, running the private office in the role of Private Secretary. Stephen holds an MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College, University of London (distinction) and a BA in Economics and Politics from the University of Exeter (first class).

Johnathan Stewart | Senior Economist

Jonathan Stewart is a Senior Economist at Oxford Economics and works as a member of the Cities and Regions Forecasting team.

Jonathan is an Economist at Oxford Economics working within the Cities & Regions Forecasting team, specialising in sub-national economic forecasting and analysis. Jonathan plays a key role in Oxford Economics’ UK regional and local authority forecast services and also contributes to the bi-annual UK Regional Economic Outlook report. As well as baseline forecasting Jonathan works on a wide range of consultancy projects for public and private bodies and has significant experience in producing detailed bespoke scenario models. In recent years Jonathan has played a lead role in developing bespoke scenario models for several areas across the UK.

Jonathan is also responsible for the quarterly production of city and regional level forecasting across a number of Latin American countries including Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Puerto Rico and Venezuela.