Hi, I'm Raoul Ruparel.
I’m Director for the Centre for Growth at BCG in the UK.
I joined BCG in 2022.
A lot has changed in the UK economy
since BCG opened its first office in London in 1970.
Back then, we were an ailing manufacturing economy looking for a path forward.
Now, we're a bit more of a services powerhouse
but we are still looking at a number of similar challenges:
high inflation, rising interest rates, low economic growth.
So, there are lessons we can learn from looking back
at what BCG did with businesses then
how the economy changed, and some of the things we learnt.
I think there's a lot that BCG and the Centre for Growth can do
to help promote growth and economic development in the UK.
You know, we work with businesses on a day-to-day basis to try and improve
their productivity, improve their output, improve the atmosphere for workers.
And so a lot of that can be translated to the national level.
We just have to work with policymakers and businesses to start those conversations
and take some of those granular learnings
at the business level to the national level.