Mitchell Palmer is an Economist at the Adam Smith Institute, based in London. He concurrently serves as a Senior Policy Advisor at the New Zealand Parliament.

He previously worked as a Ministerial Advisor (special advisor) to the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand, whom he advised on fiscal policy and microeconomics. He has also worked in economic consulting in New Zealand and at a think tank in Singapore.

Mitchell holds a first-class degree in History and Economics from the University of Oxford (New College). While at Oxford, he was made a Hayek Fellow of the Mont Pelerin Society. He also studied at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.