Gordon Brown will help lead Wales' recovery from coronavirus, the Assembly Government announced today.
The former Prime Minister will advise Counsel General Jeremy Miles on planning for the post-Covid-19 future.
Institute for Fiscal Studies director Paul Johnson and Dr Rebecca Heaton, a member of the UK Committee on Climate Change, will also sit on the panel.
Announcing the ex-Labour leader's role, Mr Miles said he "was Prime Minister at a time of difficulty in relation to the financial crisis, and so will bring a number of reflections from that first-hand experience".
Mr Brown was instrumental in coordinating the international fightback against the credit crunch.
First Minister Mark Drakeford said coronavirus "the biggest challenge"
Cardiff Bay had faced.
But Conservative Assembly Member Darren Millar accused the Welsh Government of "politicising its Covid-19 recovery group".
He claimed: "The last thing that people in Wales need during this time of unprecedented crisis is another dose of Gordon Brown.”
Earlier this week, Mr Brown, who was premier between 2007 and 2010, called on US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to "step up to the plate" and pledge to join a multibillion-pound drive to prevent a second wave of coronavirus.
He insisted there was a "deadly urgency" about nations working together now to stop a second wave of the disease impacting on the world's poorest countries, and then returning to the rest of the globe.
