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Nick Bridge

Special Representative for Climate Change

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4th July 2012

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by Nick Bridge

Special Representative for Climate Change

OECD and IMF ‘Triple Crisis’

I only started blogging a week ago so I hope you’ll indulge me if I go back to something from June, as I think it is an issue that is only going to get more important. I’m talking about IMF Chief Christine Lagarde’s “Back to Rio, the road to a sustainable future” speech at the […]

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2nd July 2012

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by Nick Bridge

Special Representative for Climate Change

Nudge nudge

British tax authorities recently added a sentence to the top of letters to people who hadn’t paid their tax yet, simply noting that most other people had already paid up. The extra sentence is thought to have netted an extra £160million in tax revenue paid on time. In another “nudge”, emails or texts were sent to […]

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28th June 2012

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by Nick Bridge

Special Representative for Climate Change

New Approaches to Economic Challenges

The most common question I get in this job is “So what exactly does the OECD do?”. By the end of this blog I will have suggested that part of the answer is “it takes new approaches to economic challenges”. But let me start my answer by recalling the OECD’s founding mission, in 1961, “to promote policies designed […]

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About Nick Bridge

The Foreign Secretary appointed Nick Bridge as Special Representative for Climate Change in May 2017. He was previously Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the OECD from 2011 to…

The Foreign Secretary appointed Nick Bridge as Special Representative for Climate Change in May 2017.

He was previously Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the OECD from 2011 to 2016.

Mr Bridge was previously Chief Economist at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and head of Global Economy Department. He has served for over a decade in diplomatic postings to the China, Japan and the United States.

Mr Bridge previously worked in the Treasury, where he co-led a $4 billion facility to immunise half a billion people in the developing world, and was an economist in the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.
Born in 1972 in Yorkshire, Mr Bridge graduated in economics from the University of Nottingham.

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