Donald MacDougall

Who was Donald MacDougall?

Sir George Donald Alastair MacDougall was a Scottish economist and civil servant who held enormous influence over public policy during the 1960s. He headed the Government Economic Service and, between 1969 and 1973, acted as chief economic adviser to Chancellors of the Exchequer Roy Jenkins, Iain MacLeod and Anthony Barber. He predicted that the euro could not work and that the Stability Pact would not be enforced.

The son of family with a china business, MacDougall was educated at Kelvinside Academy, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford.