Another special to keep you updated on new academic appointments at the School
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New professors
Alistair McGuire
Alistair McGuire, who joins the School as Chair in Health Economics (a joint appointment with King's College) was a professor in health economics at City University and an associate research fellow, Health Economics Group at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Prior to this he was a research fellow at the Health Economics Research Unit, Aberdeen University and tutor in economics at Pembroke College, Oxford. He has been interested in the economics of health care for over 15 years and has written numerous books, articles and reports in this area.
A member of the government's Cabinet Office Advisory Council on Science and Technology, he is currently a member of the UK Medical Research Council Oncology Committee, the MRC Steering Committee on the UK Prospective Diabetes Study and the Economic and Social Science Research Committee on Food and Nutrition. He also serves on the North Thames R&D Committee. He has acted as a World Health Organisation consultant on a number of occasions and as an economic consultant to a number of pharmaceutical companies. He was an economic consultant to BUPA Ltd for the UK Monopolies and Mergers Enquiry into their takeover of AMI Hospitals
Recent relevant publications include: The Theory and Practice of Economic Evaluation in Health Care (ed with M Drummond) and 'Technology change around the world: evidence from heart attack', Health Affairs.
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Edward PAGE
Edward Page joined the Government Department in April as the Sidney and Beatrice Webb Chair in Public Policy. Professor Page previously held posts in the universities of Strathclyde and Hull, where he was a professor of political science. He was a visiting associate professor at Texas A & M University, 1986-87.
He is currently director of an ESRC research programme, Future Governance: lessons from comparative public policy, which funds 30 research projects and associated activities, and is editor of the European Journal of Political Research.
With research interests mainly in the area of British and comparative public policy and administration, his books include: Governing by Numbers: delegated legislation and everyday policy making; Bureaucratic Elites in West European States (co-ed with V Wright) and People Who Run Europe.
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Paul WILLIAMS
Paul Williams joined the School as Professor of Operational Research (OR) earlier this year and is now convenor of the OR Department.
Previously Professor of OR at the University of Southampton, he was also Dean of the Faculty of Mathematical Studies there from 1987 to 1990 and from 1992 to 1993. Prior to that he was a Development Analyst with IBM and lecturer in OR at the University of Sussex before becoming Professor of Management Science at the University of Edinburgh in 1976.
Professor Williams' research interests include optimisation modelling, methods of allocating shared fixed costs and logical linear programming.
His many books and papers include Model Building in Mathematical Programming, A Survey of Different Integer Programming Formulations of the Travelling Salesman Problem (with Alex Orman), and The Dual of a Logical Linear Programme.
He currently holds a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to study the application of logic to discrete optimisation. He is a member of the OR and Mathematical Programming Societies and the Royal Institution of Cornwall.
Professor Williams has extensively advised public and private bodies on the use of optimisation, particularly in the area of distribution.
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New reader
Joanna BENJAMIN
Dr Joanna Benjamin combines academic research with practice - currently Reader in Law at LSE, consultant at Clifford Chance and Director of the Centre for Law Reform.
Previously she was deputy chief executive of the Financial Law Panel, and director of financial services research at Clifford Chance. She has been cited in Chambers and Partners Directory as a market leader in financial services, and in the Financial Times as a leading authority of the law relating to international clearing systems and the international trade in securities.
She is the author of The Law of Global Custody; and Interests in Securities. Recent work includes assisting HM Treasury and the Financial Services Authority in developing UK policy for regulating financial services on the internet, assisting ISDA in its cross-border collateral review, and working with CRESTCo and HM Treasury in relation to cross-border settlement arrangements.
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Visiting professors
Tony BENN
Tony Benn joins the School's Government Department as a visiting professor. The son, grandson and father of MPs, Tony Benn retired from the House of Commons in May this year in order to 'devote more time to politics.' He is the longest serving Labour MP in the history of the party.
He was a cabinet minister in the Wilson and Callaghan governments (1964-79) as minister of technology, secretary of state for both industry and energy, and president of the Council of European Energy ministers in 1977. He is a member of the Transport and General Workers Union and the National Union of Journalists, and is an honorary member of the National Union of Mineworkers.
Tony Benn's published Diaries in seven volumes cover the period from 1942-1990 and the next volume, Free at Last (from 1990-2001), will be published next year. He has also written seven other books, including Arguments for Socialism, as well as many pamphlets. Several videos and audio tapes have also been published.
He is the holder of seven honorary doctorates from British and American universities and is a regular broadcaster.
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Marian FITZGERALD
Marian FitzGerald is a visiting professor in the Mannheim Centre. Her earliest research was into the participation of minority ethnic groups in British political parties and she was previously responsible for race relations research in the Home Office. Much of her later work has concerned issues of ethnicity, crime and the criminal justice system, and her most recent publications include a report on the use of police stop and search pioneers in London.
At the Mannheim Centre, she is completing the first major study of police-community relations in London for nearly 20 years. This has been undertaken jointly for LSE and South Bank University. At the same time, with Dr Jan Stockdale, she is researching young people's involvement in street crime for the Youth Justice Board.
Her other publications include: Ethnic Minorities and the Criminal Justice System; Ethnic Minorities, Victimisation and Racial Harassment (with C Hale); Police Ethnic Monitoring: a beginning (with R Sibbitt); and a chapter on 'Ethnic Minorities and Community Safety' in Crime, Disorder and Community Safety: a new agenda (eds R Matthews and J Pitts).
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David GWILLIAM
David Gwilliam comes to the Accounting and Finance Department from the School of Management and Business at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Professor Gwilliam's areas of teaching and research are in financial reporting, financial regulation and auditing and he has published widely in these fields. He has held posts at Cambridge, and Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.
Before coming into the world of university teaching, he worked for the accounting firm Price Waterhouse.
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Centennial professors
Bhikhu PAREKH
Professor Lord Bhikhu Parekh, Centennial Professor in the Centre for the Study of Global Governance and emeritus professor of political theory, Hull, has held visiting professorships at the universities of British Columbia, Concordia, McGill, Harvard, Pompeau Febra, Pennsylvania and the Institute of Advanced Studies in Vienna. He was vice-chancellor of the University of Baroda (1981-84) when he was also a member of the University Grants Commission and the National Commission on College and University Teachers.
His many books include: Hannah Arendt and the Search for a New Political Philosophy; Marx's Theory of Ideology, and, most recently, Rethinking Multiculturalism and Gandhi. As well as serving on many public bodies, Professor Parekh is a trustee of, among others, the Runnymede Trust, the Institute of Public Policy Research, and the Anne Frank Educational Trust.
A frequent broadcaster on radio and TV, he has written for the national press on race relations and political events in Britain. He was chair of the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain, whose report was published in October 2000.
Professor Parekh was elected British Asian of the Year in 1992, was awarded the BBC's prestigious Special Lifetime Achievement Award for Asians in November 1999 and was appointed to the House of Lords in March 2000.
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Michael STORPER
Michael Storper came to the Geography and Environment Department last October as Centennial Professor.
His research deals with theories and processes of regional development - where economic activity goes and why, and why city and regional economies grow and decline. One area of study is the long-term tension between the geographical concentration of development and its tendency to spread out.
His most recent two books compare, economic organisation in French, American and Italian regions, and the cognitive and institutional foundations of regional development. He has also edited a book on industrial policies in latecomers to industrialisation.
Fluent in French and Portuguese, he has lectured throughout Europe, Canada and Brazil. His current work includes a project on globalisation and inequality, another on the new economic geography of Europe, a related project on the relationship between globalisation of production and consumerism, and another on development strategies for northeast Brazil.
He currently holds a permanent joint appointment with the University of Paris/Marne-la-Vallée in France, and has consulted widely with the European Union, the OECD, and many national and regional governments.
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Jean-Charles ROCHET
Professor Jean-Charles Rochet joins the School's Accounting and Finance Department as Centennial Professor. Before coming to LSE, Professor Rochet was Professor of Mathematics and Economics at the Université Toulouse and previously held posts at the Université Paris-Dauphine, CORE, Louvain la Neuve and NSAE, Paris.
His publications include 'Direct -vs- Indirect Taxation: the design of the tax structure revisited' (with H Cremer and P Pestieau), International Economic Review, and 'An Optimal IPO Mechanism' (with B Biais and P Bossaert), Review of Economic Studies. He has been associate editor of Econometrica since 1990.
His current research interest are payment systems, banking crises and redistribution policies.
Awarded Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1995, Professor Rochet won the Arconati-Visconti Prize in 1988 and was a council member of the European Economic Association, 1994-98. In 2000, he gave the Gaston Eyskens lecture series in Leuven, Belgium.
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Professorial research fellow
Gwyn PRINS
In July 2000, Professor Gwyn Prins was appointed to a principal research fellowship in the European Institute and in July of this year, he was appointed Professorial Research Fellow.
Professor Prins taught history and politics for 21 years at Cambridge, where he was a fellow of Emmanuel College, before being invited to join the Royal Institute of International Affairs as its Senior Research Fellow in 1997.
Originally an African cultural historian and anthropologist, he now works in the general field of international relations. His current principal interests are applied and applicable security studies, environmental aspects of security, the creation of global civil society, European and global security architecture, models of democracy, and methods of strategic and operational analysis. He is also senior fellow in the Office of the Special Adviser on Central and Eastern European Affairs, Office of the Secretary-General of NATO, Brussels, with particular responsibility for thinking about future security, and the first visiting senior fellow in the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) of the UK Ministry of Defence, Farnborough. There he helps to appraise DSTL's work in general, but especially in high-level studies and decision support, where he offers advice on priorities, and stimulates work.
His concept study on the applicability of the NATO model to UN peace support operations was published in July 1996 with a follow-up study on joint and combined operations published in September 1997. He is currently a UK member of a P-5 working group seeking ways to improve the operations of the Security Council.
He has recently co-edited The Future of War (with Professor Hylke Tromp) and, for Chatham House, Understanding Unilateralism in American Foreign Relations. He is currently writing two books, one on the role of military power in the post post-Cold War era, the other on Europeans, Americans and security.
Dr Prins is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and in 1997 was made Honorary Cormorant by the UK Joint Services Defence College. As well as lecturing at universities around the world, he frequently addresses national and international staff colleges and talks regularly at the NATO Defense College in Rome.
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