Erik Britton

Biography

Erik Britton is the CEO of Fathom, a leading economic research and consulting firm where he is responsible for designing and implementing strategy, guiding research, and leading major client projects. His work focuses on the forces shaping the global economy, with a particular focus on geopolitics, markets, US-China competition, de-globalisation and global trade, as well as the impact of AI and technological change on growth, productivity and labour.

Before joining Fatham, Erik spent five years at the Bank of England, where he ran the Bank's UK macroeconomic model, coordinated international forecasts, and managed a team of economists in the Monetary Analysis Division. During his time there, Erik developed the ‘fan chart’, an innovation that has transformed how central banks communicate uncertainty in economic forecasting by displaying not just the central projection but the range and probability of outcomes around it. After the Bank of England, Erik was a director at a leading economic forecasting consultancy, where he headed projects for blue-chip industrial firms, financial services organisations and government across the UK, Europe and the United States.

Erik considers the interplay of macroeconomic, geopolitical and financial market factors shaping the world. He examines how technological disruption, particularly AI, is reshaping productivity, growth and employment, and explores the geopolitical dynamics driving de-globalisation and reshaping international trade and competition.