Climbing the Public Engagement Ladder Speech given by  Andrew G Haldane Chief Economist Bank of England  Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) 6 March 2018  The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the Bank of England or the Monetary Policy Committee. I would like to thank Shiv Chowla for his help in preparing the text. I would like to thank Michael Anson, Ben Broadbent, Mark Carney, Clare Macallan, Emma Murphy, Jennifer Nemeth, Mette Nielsen, Dave Ramsden and Ratidzo Starkey for their comments and contributions. 1  All speeches are available online at www.bankofengland.co.uk/speeches  I am delighted to be here to discuss the final report from the RSA Citizens’ Economic Council on “Building a Public Culture of Economics”. This is the culmination of a two-year project, working with around 250 citizens and a number of organisations from across the country, including the Bank of England. I would like to congratulate Matthew Taylor, Chief Executive of the RSA, and Reema Patel, Kayshani Gibbon and Tony Greenham from the RSA as leaders of the project, for their terrific work in pulling this together. It is an impressive, progressive and ambitious agenda for the economy and for economic policymakers like me. Of course, citizens do already have a crucial stake in the economy. As economists we often divide the world into neat institutional packages – companies, governments, trade unions, charities. While useful organisationally, these names are no more veils, part legal, part social.
Page 9 of 10  I believe that the financial services community can and must contribute to change our nation’s mentality. At the interface between our nation’s savings and investment it is best placed to leverage more effectively our current economic success. Thank you. Page 10 of 10