Thursday 6th November 2025
12:00 - 14:30pm
A Presentation on the Upcoming Budget and Economic Outlook
Event date: Thursday 6th November 2025
Apex (1st Floor)
Forbury Road, Reading, RG1 1AX
Please join us for a presentation on the Upcoming Budget & the Economic Outlook by James Sproule, Chief Economists at Handelsbanken UK, followed by drinks and canapes.
Agenda:
12.00 - Registration & networking
12:30 – Presentation & Q&A
13:15 – 14:30 Buffet lunch & networking
James Sproule was appointed as Chief Economist of Handelsbanken UK in May 2020. For much of 2019 he was a Senior Business Adviser to Prime Minister Boris Johnson prior to which he worked with the think tanks UnHerd and the Legatum Institute. Between 2014-2017 he was the Chief Economist and Director of Policy at the Institute of Directors. Before joining the Institute of Directors, he was the Head of UK Research with Accenture. Sproule stood for Parliament at the 2005 general election and was for seven years a visiting fellow in the Department of Management Economics at the London School of Economics.
