Kitty Ussher

Quick Facts

Full Name	Kitty Ussher
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Mar 18, 1971(1971-03-18)
Age	53
Birthplace	Aylesbury
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Pisces

Kitty Ussher Biography

Kitty Ussher is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on March 18, 1971 in Aylesbury, United Kingdom. Katharine Anne Ussher (born 18 March 1971) is a British economist, former MP and Treasury minister who is the former Chief Executive and now the Chief Economist at Demos think tank.

Ussher was elected as the member of Parliament for Burnley at the 2005 general election, having been selected through an All-Women Shortlist as the constituency’s Labour candidate. The new intake of MPs was called the brightest for a generation .

From 2005 to 2006, Ussher was a member of the Public Accounts Committee. She was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Margaret Hodge, the Minister of State at the Department of Trade and Industry, until 29 June 2007.

On 5 October 2008, she moved to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department for Work and Pensions, taking on broad welfare reform responsibilities previously undertaken by Stephen Timms and James Plaskitt. At the time of the reshuffle, she was described by Martin Waller, city diarist of The Times, as “one of the brighter denizens of the lower depths of the Brown administration” who had “made herself popular enough in the City”.

Commenting on her resignation, the BBC described her as a “rising star” who had risen quickly through the ranks, despite only being elected in 2005.. The Independent newspaper commented that her departure from the Government and the Labour benches was a blow to Gordon Brown. “At 38, she was one of his youngest ministers and had been marked out for a bright future having already taken on jobs at the Treasury and the Department of Work and Pensions.” .

Kitty Ussher Net Worth

Kitty Ussher is one of the richest Economist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Kitty Ussher 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

From 1998 to 2002 she also served as a councillor for Vassall ward in the London Borough of Lambeth, where she chaired the Council’s Finance and Environment Scrutiny Committees. From 2001, until her selection as a parliamentary candidate in February 2004, she was special adviser to Patricia Hewitt at the Department of Trade and Industry.

She married accountant Peter J Colley in September 1999 in Hammersmith; they have one daughter (born 7 June 2005) and a son (born 3 January 2008).

After training as an economist and working as a macroeconomic forecaster at the Economist Intelligence Unit , she was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for Burnley at the 2005 general election, succeeding Peter Pike. Seen as a high flier, she went on to serve as a minister in Gordon Brown’s government from 2007 to 2009, mainly at the Treasury, but also at the Department for Work and Pensions, having previously been a Special Advisor at the Department for Trade and Industry. At the time she was the second-youngest government minister, and the youngest woman.

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In May 2010, after leaving Parliament, Ussher became the new Chief Executive of Demos until 2012 . She then became a research fellow of the Smith Institute, an associate at the Centre for London, a member of TheCityUK’s Independent Economists’ Panel, and a co founder of Labour in the City.

Facts & Trivia

Kitty Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Kitty Ussher celebrates birthday on March 18 of every year.

In February 2015, she joined the Financial Services Consumer Panel, a scrutiny panel for the Financial Conduct Authority regulator. Between 2017-19 she spent two years working as an inner city maths teacher, as part of the inaugural cohort of Now Teach, a scheme to encourage older professionals to switch careers into teaching, stating in her blog that she “thought she should do something useful” .