- Ralf Dahrendorf
Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, KBE, (born May 1, 1929) is a German-British sociologist, philosopher, political scientist and politician. He was born in Hamburg, the son of Lina and the late Gustav Dahrendorf, a social democrat member of the German Parliament. He studied philosophy, classical philology and sociology at Hamburg University between 1947 and 1952, became a doctor of philosophy and classics (Dr. phil.) in 1952.
- Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf is a British journalist. He is associate editor and chief economics commentator at the Financial Times. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000. He left Oxford University with a master of philosophy degree in economics in 1971 to join the World Bank's young professionals programme, becoming a senior economist in 1974. He left the World Bank in 1981, to become Director of Studies at the Trade Policy Research Centre, in London.
- Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi (born 1946) is an American political scientist and author, noted for her work in comparative political economy, labor politics, and democratic theory, notably on the origins and effects of trustworthy government. Levi graduated with a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College in 1968 and completed a Ph.D. degree in government at Harvard University in 1974. Since then, she has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle, …
- Edward Lucas
Edward Lucas (born 1962) is a British journalist. Lucas works for "The Economist", the London-based global newsweekly. He has been covering eastern Europe since 1986, and was the Moscow bureau chief from 1998-2002. He is now the central and east European correspondent. He speaks English, German, Russian, Polish, Lithuanian and Czech. He was educated at Winchester College and the London School of Economics.
- Colin Clark
Colin Grant Clark (November 2, 1905 - September 4, 1989) was a British economist and statistician who worked in both the United Kingdom and Australia, and who pioneered the use of the gross national product ("GNP") as the basis for studying national economies. Colin Clark was born in London. He was educated at the Dragon School in Oxford, then at Winchester College, and from 1924 at Brasenose College, Oxford where he studied chemistry.
- Archie Brown
Archie Brown is a British academic and historian. From 2005, he became Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and an Emeritus Fellow of St. Anthony's College, Oxford, where he was a Professor of Politics and Director of St. Anthony's Russian and East European Centre. He has also been the Chair of the Political Studies Section of the British Academy from 1999 to 2002.
- Andrew Dilnot
Andrew William Dilnot CBE (born 19 June 1960), economist and broadcaster, has been Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford since October 2002. He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4's series on numbers, "More or Less" and of documentaries for British television. Dilnot was Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies from 1991 to 2002. He is an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford and of the Institute of Actuaries, …
- J. Philippe Rushton
John Philippe (Phil) Rushton (born December 3, 1943) is a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada, who is most widely known for his work on intelligence and racial differences, particularly his book "Race, Evolution And Behavior". Rushton also researches altruism from a number of perspectives. Rushton is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American, British, and Canadian Psychological Associations.
- Alasdair Smith
Alasdair Smith is currently a professor of economics and Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex. He is a noted international economist whose studies (often developed in concert with fellow economist Tony Venables) have been used by the European Union. Smith was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Oxford University.
- Alexander Carr-Saunders
Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders Kt KBE FBA (1886 - 1966) was an English sociologist. Carr-Saunders was born in Reigate, Surrey and educated at Eton and Magdalen College, Oxford where he gained a 1st in zoology in 1908. He remained a year at Oxford as a demonstrator but left in 1910 to University College London where he studied biometrics under Karl Pearson. Deciding against natural science, he instead read for the Bar.
- Frank Meyer
Frank Straus Meyer (1909 - 1972) was a libertarian political philosopher and co-founding editor of the "National Review" magazine. Frank S. Meyer was born to a prominent Jewish business family in Newark, New Jersey. He attended Princeton University for one year but was displeased by the antisemitism and snobbery he found there. He then transferred to Balliol College at Oxford University. He later studied at the London School of Economics.
- Larry P. Arnn
Arnn has been President of Hillsdale, a prominent liberal arts college, since 1999. Before that, he served as president of the Claremont Institute, a think tank based in southern California. Arnn received his bachelor's degree in political science and accounting in 1974 from Arkansas State University. He later studied at the Claremont Graduate School, receiving his master's degree in government there in 1976 and his doctorate in government in 1985.
- Kamisese Mara
Kamisese Kapaiwai Tuimacilai Mara was born on 6 May 1920, in Vanuabalavu in the archipelago of Lau, the son of Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba, head of the chiefly Vuanirewa clan, and his first wife Lusiana Qolikoro, who was related to Tongan royalty and was also descended from an English missionary. Mara's title, "Ratu", which means "Chief," was hereditary; as the hereditary Paramount Chief of the Lau Islands, he held the titles of "Tui Lau", …
- Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the Thirteenth District, comprising the communities of Hollywood, Silver Lake, Echo Park, Atwater Village, Elysian Valley, Glassell Park, Temple-Beverly, Thai Town, Little Armenia, and Filipino Town.
- Stuart Wheeler
Stuart Wheeler (born 1937) is the founder of IG Group and British Conservative Party donor. Wheeler was educated at Eton College, and went on to do his national service in the Welsh Guards before graduating from Oxford University with a second class honours degree in law. He then practised as a barrister briefly before working as a merchant banker. He eventually set up IG Index in 1974. The entrepreneur is married to Tessa Codrington, a society photographer, …
- Charlotte Gray
Charlotte Gray (born 1948) is a Canadian historian and author. Born in England and educated at Oxford University and the London School of Economics, Gray came to Canada in 1979. She worked for a number of years as a journalist, writing a regular column on national politics for "Saturday Night" and appearing regularly on radio and television discussion panels. She has also written for "Chatelaine", "The Globe and Mail", …
- David A. Harris
David A. Harris is the executive director of the American Jewish Committee. The New York Times called the AJC the "Dean of American Jewish Organizations." He grew up in New York, the son of Holocaust survivors, in a secular Jewish home, and attended the Dwight School, known formerly as the Franklin School. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1971, and did his doctoral studies at the London School of Economics and Oxford University (St. Anthony's College).
- Mike Smithson
Mike Smithson spent thirteen years a BBC News journalist. He joined the Liberal Democrats on their foundation, and stood for Parliament in Bedford at the 1992 General Election. He was twice elected as a County Councillor in Bedfordshire, and also as a Borough Councillor in Bedford. He has worked as Director of Development running the fundraising for five UK universities - for the London School of Economics from 1994 to 1996, for Cambridge University from 1996 to 1999, …
- Richard Weitz
As a Senior Staff Member of the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis (IFPA) from 2003 to 2005, Dr. Weitz analyzed homeland security policies and evaluated deterrence methods to prevent rogue states and non-state actors from using weapons of mass destruction. From 2002 to 2004, Dr. Weitz was a consultant for the Center for Strategic and International Studies , DFI International, Inc. and the Defense Science Board .
- Andre Béteille
Andre Béteille is an Indian sociologist and writer. He is particularly well known for his studies of caste in South India. He was a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology since 2003. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in anthropology from the University of Calcutta. Thereafter he received his doctorate from the University of Delhi.
- Guglielmo Verdirame
Guglielmo Verdirame (born 1974 in Reggio di Calabria, Italy) is a university lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. He is a leading expert on UN accountability issues and on refugee law. Before coming to Cambridge, he was a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College, Oxford between 2000-2003. He holds a Ph.D. in law from the London School of Economics, where he studied with Christine Chinkin, …
- John Milloy
John Milloy was elected to the Ontario legislature in 2003 and re-elected in 2007. He previously served as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, and the Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities. Before becoming an MPP, Milloy was responsible for public affairs at the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo.
- Thomas Hesse
Thomas Hesse is President of Sony BMG Music Entertainment's Global Digital Business and US Sales. He reports directly to Tim Bowen, Chief Operating Officer for Sony BMG Music Entertainment. He is based in New York City. Hesse was appointed to the position of President in charge of Global Digital Business upon the completion of the SONY BMG merger in 2004. Since the beginning of 2007 he was also put in charge of SONY BMG's physical sales activities in the US, …
- Stephen F. Jones
Stephen F. Jones is an American expert on post-Communist societies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who currently serves as a Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts. Originally from England, Jones received his B.A. in 1974 from the University of Essex, his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics in 1984. He has taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz (1986), …
- Sophia Murphy
Sophia Murphy Senior Advisor smurphy@iatp.org Murphy leads IATP's work on the World Trade Organization, focused on agricultural trade rules, U.S. trade and agriculture policy and the interests of developing countries in the multilateral trade system.
- Amartya Sen
- Timothy Besley
Professor Timothy BESLEY EOPP Associate and Kuwait Professor of Economics and Political Science
- Tim Markham
Mildly eccentric academic. Film freak, freakier if it's arty/foreign/pretentious. News junkie. Culture vulture. Political animal if the animal is a fluffy rabbit. Bleepy music purveyor.
- Howard Glennerster
Professor Howard GLENNERSTER Co-Director of CASE; Emeritus Professor of Social Policy
- Domenico Lombardi
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- Marcus J. Michles II
- Nicola Talbot
NICOLA TALBOT, DIRECTOR OF RESEARCH Nicola has a degree in History from Oxford University and a Masters in International Relations from the London School of Economics. She has worked in both education and the voluntary sector and, more recently in political research and consultancy.
- John O. Stubbs
John O. Stubbs Dr. John Stubbs is a professor of history and past President and Vice-Chancellor of Simon Fraser University. A long-time university executive and educator, Dr. Stubbs has served as President and Vice-Chancellor of Trent University, Associate Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo, Governor of Sir Sandford Fleming College, and as a member of the executive of the Council of Ontario Universities.
- John Colvin
John studied economics and industrial relations at Sydney University and graduated with a Bachelor of Economics (Hons). He then continued his studies in economics and industrial relations at London School of Economics and Political Science obtaining a Master of Science (Economics). John graduated in law from Oxford University in 1976 and joined Freehills in January 1977. He has been a partner with Freehills since 1981.
- Emily Jackson
Emily Jackson is a Professor of Law at the London School of Economics. She has previously worked at Oxford University, Cambridge University, Birkbeck College and Queen Mary, University of London. She is a member of the BMA Medical Ethics Committee and the Ethics Committees of the Royal College of Pathologists and the Royal College of Physicians.
- Nikhil Shah
Nikhil Shah Nikhil has worked for the Future Foundation for three years in a variety of roles. He now divides his time equally between enhancing the quality of research on nVision, and working on developing our consultancy service to the public sector. He is involved in every aspect of research, from design through analysis to regularly presenting our findings to clients.
- Joshua Funder
Dr Joshua Funder joined GBS in 2004 with experience in biotechnology management, business strategy and the international pharmaceutical industry. Before joining GBS he worked in corporate strategy and development at Infinity Pharmaceuticals, a drug discovery start-up in Boston. Joshua also worked as a consultant at the Boston Consulting Group in San Francisco, focusing primarily on corporate strategy in the high-tech and bio-pharmaceutical sectors.
- David Clifford
David Clifford Managing Director, Head of European Investment and Corporate Banking, CIBC World Markets David Clifford was appointed head of European Investment and Corporate Banking in November 2004. At that time Mr. Clifford was head of Merchant Banking, a position he held until December 2006. Prior to becoming head of Merchant Banking in March 2004, Mr. Clifford was a managing director in the Corporate Development group of CIBC.
- Emad Maghsoudi
Emad Maghsoudi , Regional Director Emad Maghsoudi is currently a senior majoring in political science at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also serves as the Student Body Vice-President of VCU. He has studied abroad at Oxford University: Trinity College, and was selected as a Hansard Scholar, at the London School of Economics. While he was in London he worked for a member of the Parliament in the House of Commons.
- Ken Wood
Ken Wood Deputy Managing Director, Microsoft Research Cambridge Microsoft Corporation Ken Wood is a Deputy Managing Director at Microsoft’s Cambridge Research Lab where he is responsible for the leadership of business and operational activities and also heads the Computer-Mediated Living Group which he founded in 2003.