Economic and Social Research Council
Economic and Social Research Council

The Institute’s key research themes are led by ten academic partners spread across the UK.

Our nine Productivity Forums are spread across the UK acting as regional ambassadors for the importance of productivity. The Investment in Productive Places campaign helps places understand how their resources can be used more effectively.

Investment in Places

Businesses are crucial to solving the UK’s productivity problems.

Working closely with policymakers.

Read and listen to our up-to-the-minute productivity output.

We’re a UK-wide research organisation exploring what productivity means for business

Professor Graeme Roy

Head of the College of Social Sciences and Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow and Policy Fellow at The Productivity Institute Policy Unit

Career

Professor Graeme Roy is an Head of the College of Social Sciences and Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow (as of 1 August 2026).

He is a former Senior Civil Servant in the Scottish Government where he was a Senior Economic Adviser and head of the First Minister’s Policy Unit. He is also a past Director of the Fraser of Allander Institute and Head of Economics at the University of Strathclyde.

In 2022, Graeme was appointed Chair of the Scottish Fiscal Commission, Scotland’s independent economic and fiscal forecasting body.

He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a lead editor of the ESRC Economic Observatory.

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