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Rain Newton-Smith: UK business body CBI gets new economics chief
The confederation of British Industry (CBI) today announced the appointment of Rain Newton-Smith as the business group’s director of economics.
Newton-Smith moves from Oxford Economics, a consultancy at which she was head of emerging markets, and has previously worked on monetary analysis at the Bank of England.
The CBI said that Newton-Smith’s expertise in Asia would be particularly valuable to the industry body.