Fergus Cumming

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Position

Deputy Director of Advanced Analytics and Chief Economist of the UKHSA


Fergus Cumming is Deputy Director of Advanced Analytics and Chief Economist of the UKHSA. During the pandemic, his teams led policy-relevant modelling at the Joint Biosecurity Centre that was the analytical bedrock of many of England’s non-pharmaceutical interventions, testing strategies and other Covid policies. Since becoming part of UKHSA, his multi-disciplinary teams are pivoting their focus to pandemic preparedness and non-Covid health threats.

Before turning to health, he worked at the Bank of England for just over a decade. He completed his DPhil in Economics at Nuffield College, Oxford and hold a BSc and MSc from the London School of Economics.