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About Samuel Goldman
- Sir Samuel Goldman KCB (10 March 1912 – 28 July 2007) was Second Permanent Secretary at Her Majesty's Treasury and later an international banker.He was the youngest son of Jewish immigrants.
- He was educated at the Davenant Foundation School and Raine's School.
- His father and brothers worked in the clothing business but at the age of 17 he gained a scholarship to the London School of Economics (LSE).
- His BSc in 1932 was the top first in Economics; he won the Gladstone Memorial Prize.
- In 1934 he gained an MSc for a thesis titled "English Theory of Capital from a Hayekian Viewpoint." Hayek himself approved the thesis. He worked for Moody's Economist Services, 1934–38, Joseph Sebag & Co., 1938–39 and the Bank of England, 1940–47.
- He joined the Civil Service in 1947, first in the Central Statistical Office then transferred to the Treasury in September 1947. The leading priority then in the Treasury was post-war recovery.
- He spent his career in the finance group until 1968, becoming Chief Statistician, 1948; Assistant Secretary, 1952; Under-Secretary, 1960 and Third Secretary, 1962.
- In 1968, he was appointed Second Permanent Secretary in charge of public spending, serving under both the Labour government of Harold Wilson and the Conservative one of Edward Heath.
- He was made CB in 1963 and KCB in 1969. Retiring in 1972, he became chairman of Henry Ansbacher Holdings and managing director of Orion Bank.
- He was Chairman of the Covent Garden Market Authority, 1976-81.
- He was among the first people to be made an honorary fellow of LSE. His son is Anthony Goldman.
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