
Philipson, Goodspeed became acting Chair on June 23, 2020. He joined the Council of Economic Advisers in 2017 as senior economist and then chief economist for macroeconomic policy. His 2017 book, Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland, analyzes the role of credit markets in mitigating the impact of adverse environmental shocks. His 2016 book, Legislating Instability: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1722, analyses the collapse of the Ayr Bank in the Crisis of 1772. In 2012, he published Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection. John’s College of Oxford University from 2014 to 2017 and a lecturer in economics in the Department of Political Economy at King's College London from 2016 to 2017. He was a junior research fellow ( postdoc) in economics at St. Friedman, Richard Hornbeck, and Emma Georgina Rothschild. His dissertation, Upon Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith, Free Banking, and the Financial Crisis of 1772, was supervised by a committee with Niall Ferguson, Benjamin M. He received his BA in economics and history, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 2008, an MPhil in economic and social history from Emmanuel College of Cambridge University on a Gates Cambridge Scholarship in 2009, and returned to Harvard for his MA in 2011 and PhD in history, specializing in economic history, in 2014. Last updated: 4 March 2022.Goodspeed was born in Exeter, New Hampshire and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy in 2003. SAGE provides scientific and technical advice to support government decision makers during emergencies. Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies ( SAGE) The funding will enable the key SAGE participants with the most severe time and workload constraints to continue their work on SAGE as appropriate and ensure SAGE continues to benefit from their expertise. To ease this, the government has secured funding in support of those universities most affected to provide cover for the academic’s duties such as teaching. In addition, an unprecedented burden has also been placed on universities – the employers of many SAGE participants – particularly during the academic year. In response, the Government Office for Science has offered a range of support to these experts including personal security and wellbeing.


The continuing demand for COVID-19 science advice from government has placed an exceptional burden on many experts participating in SAGE and its subgroups. SAGE also uses advice generated by the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG), which is an existing group that advises the government on the threat posed by new and emerging respiratory viruses.
