Mike Keoghan is an Economics Director in EIT. In this role he works with the economics team to support EIT Programs He has particular responsibility for the team’s work on prevention; working with UK Government and international organisations to make the economic and fiscal case.

Mike is on secondment from the UK’s Office for National Statistics. He joined the Government Economics Service in 1997, and has worked on a variety of productivity and industrial policies. From 2011 to 2013 he led the Office forLife Sciences, which resulted in the first UK Life Sciences Strategy. From 2019 he was Chief Economist at the Department for Business, Energy andIndustrial Strategy, which included developing the business case for theVaccine TaskForce and the analysis supporting Net Zero. During 2020-21, he was Director General for Business, overseeing the response to the pandemic and the establishment of the first gigafactories in the UK. From 2022-25, Mike was Director General for Economics at the Office for National Statistics where he had responsibility for the Government’s Data Science Campus and led programmes to inject ‘big data’ and machine learning into key economic indicators; including the first use of a large language model in statistical production.

Mike is a graduate of the University of Durham, and has a DPhil from Oxford. He is also a graduate of the Major Projects Leadership Academy at Said Business School, Oxford and has studied corporate finance at London Business School.

Mike is married with three children. He supports Everton FC, and is the welfare officer of a youth football club.

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