Please answer the following question: Facts:     - name: ian shepherdson    - nationality: british    - image: thumb    - alma mater: loughborough university    - occupation: founder & chief us economist , pantheon macroeconomics   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ian shepherdson .
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ian shepherdson is an award-winning british economist .he is the founder and chief economist of pantheon macroeconomics , an economic research firm located in newcastle , england , with an office in white plains , new york .in february 2015 , he was named the wall street journal 's us economic forecaster of the year for the second time , having previously won the award in 2003 .after graduating from loughborough university with a b.sc in banking and finance and a phd in economics ian began working as chief u.k. economist at hsbc , a position he held for six years .he then moved to the united states , working as chief economist , usa , for hsbc before taking the chief u.s. economist role at research firm high frequency economics two years later .in 2012 , ian founded his own independent economic research firm , pantheon macroeconomics , currently focussed on the u.s. , eurozone and latin american economies .ian has been called one of the `` best economists in the city '' by the `` london times '' and `` consistently right '' by the `` new york times '' .