Jill Rutter is a programme director for Better Policy Making at the Institute for Government. She has produced reports on policy making, arm’s length governance and on the centre. She is currently leading a project on how to make tax policy better.  Before joining IFG, Jill was Director of Strategy and Sustainable Development at Defra. Prior to that she worked for BP for six years, following a career in the Treasury, where she was Press Secretary, Private Secretary to the Chief Secretary and Chancellor, as well as working on areas such as tax, local government finance and debt and export finance.

She spent two and a half years seconded to the No.10 Policy Unit (1992-94) where she oversaw health, local government and environment issues.