BOE’s Flagship Inflation Report Gets First Female Chief

Lea Paterson, a former economics editor at the Times newspaper, became the Bank of England’s most senior female monetary policy official this week as she took charge of its quarterly report for economic forecasts.

Paterson began work on Sept. 10 as head of the Inflation Report division, replacing Gareth Ramsay, a spokesman for the central bank in London said. Paterson, who joined the bank in 2004 after four years in her prior post at the London-based Times, is the first woman to hold that role.