The following is a list of notable
University of Essex
The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the original plate glass universities. Essex's shield consists of the ancient arms attributed to the Kingdom of Es ...
people (in chronological or alphabetical order).
Chancellors
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Rab Butler
Richard Austen Butler, Baron Butler of Saffron Walden, (9 December 1902 – 8 March 1982), also known as R. A. Butler and familiarly known from his initials as Rab, was a prominent British Conservative Party politician. ''The Times'' obituary c ...
(1966–1982)
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Sir Patrick Nairne
Sir Patrick Dalmahoy Nairne, (15 August 1921 – 4 June 2013) was a senior British civil servant. His career started in the Admiralty. He eventually became Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Security and Master of St ...
(1982–1997)
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Michael Nolan, Baron Nolan
Michael Patrick Nolan, Baron Nolan, (10 September 1928 – 22 January 2007) was a judge in the United Kingdom, and from 1994 until 1997 was the first chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life. In the words of his obituary in ''The ...
(1997–2002)
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Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury (2003–2014)
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Shami Chakrabarti
Sharmishta "Shami" Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti, (born 16 June 1969) is a British politician, barrister, and human rights activist. A member of the Labour Party, she served as the director of Liberty, a major advocacy group which promote ...
(2014–2017)
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John Bercow
John Simon Bercow (; born 19 January 1963) is a British former politician who was Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019. A member of the Conservative Party prior t ...
(2017–2022)
Notable faculty
Vice-Chancellors
* Sir Albert Sloman (1963–1987)
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Martin Harris (1987–1993)
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Ron J. Johnston (1993–1995)
* Sir
Ivor Crewe
Sir Ivor Martin Crewe DL FAcSS (born 15 December 1945) was until 2020 the Master of University College, Oxford, and President of the Academy of Social Sciences. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and also a Profe ...
(1995–2007)
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Colin Riordan
Colin Riordan (born 27 July 1959 in Paderborn, Germany) is a British academic who has been President and Vice-Chancellor at Cardiff University since 1 September 2012.
Education
Professor Riordan obtained his PhD from the University of Manchest ...
(2007–2012)
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Anthony Forster (2012–present)
Economics
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George Christopher Archibald - Professor (1964–1971)
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Anthony Barnes Atkinson
Sir Anthony Barnes Atkinson (4 September 1944 – 1 January 2017) was a British economist, Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics, and senior research fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford.
A student of James Meade, Atkinson vi ...
- Professor of Economics (1971 to 1976)
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Rex Bergstrom - Professor of Economics (1970–1992)
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Graciela Chichilnisky - Chair in Economics (1980 to 1981)
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Sanjeev Goyal
Sanjeev Goyal FBA is an Indian-British economist, best known for his pioneering research on networks.
He is currently Arthur C. Pigou Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He rece ...
- Professor of Economics (2003-2006)
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Oliver Hart - Lecturer in Economics (1974 to 1975)
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Ravi Kanbur
Sanjiv M. Ravi Kanbur (born 28 August 1954), is T.H. Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics, and Professor of Economics at Cornell University. He worked for the World Bank for almost two decades and was the d ...
- Professor in economics (1983–87)
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David Laidler
David Ernest William Laidler (born 12 August 1938, North Shields, England) is an English/Canadian economist who has been one of the foremost scholars of monetarism. He published major economics journal articles on the topic in the late 1960s an ...
- Lecturer (1966–1969)
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Richard Lipsey
Richard George Lipsey, (born August 28, 1928) is a Canadian academic and economist. He is best known for his work on the economics of the second-best, a theory that demonstrated that piecemeal establishing of individual first best conditions w ...
- Head Professor of Economics (1963–1969)
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Michio Morishima
was a Japanese heterodox economist and public intellectual who was the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics from 1970–88. He was also professor at Osaka University and member of the British Academy. In 1976 he ...
- Visiting Professor of Economics (1968 to 1970)
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Abhinay Muthoo
Abhinay Muthoo is an economist specializing in negotiations, game theory and public policy.
Abhinay has 37 years of teaching and research experience, across several universities including Bristol, Cambridge, Essex, Warwick and the LSE. He has b ...
- Head of Department of Economics (2000 to 2007); Professor of Economics (1998 to 2008); Reader (1995 to 1998); Lecturer (1992 to 1995).
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Motty Perry - Professor of Economics
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Peter C.B. Phillips - Lecturer in Economics (1972 to 1976)
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Anthony Shorrocks
Anthony F. Shorrocks is a British development economist.
Academic career
Between January 2001 and April 2009 he was Director of UNU-WIDER.
Prior to that he was Professor at the London School of Economics and before that he worked at the Uni ...
- Professor of Economics
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Anthony Venables
Anthony James Venables, CBE, (born 25 April 1953), is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford.
Venables is known as one of the pioneers of New economic geography. He co-author ...
- Lecturer in Economics (1978 to 1979)
Sciences
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George Alfred Barnard
George Alfred Barnard (23 September 1915 – 9 August 2002) was a British statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control.
Biography
George Barnard was born in Walthamstow, Lon ...
- Professor of Mathematics (1966 to 1975)
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Richard Bartle
Richard Allan Bartle FBCS FRSA (born 10 January 1960) is a British writer, professor and game researcher in the massively multiplayer online game industry. He co-created ''MUD1'' (the first MUD) in 1978, and is the author of the 2003 book ''De ...
- FRSA, Senior Lecturer and Honorary Professor of Computer Science
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Mohammed Ghanbari - Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (1996 - )
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Martin Henson - FRSA, Professor of Computer Science
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Owen Holland - Professor of Computer Science
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Edward Tsang
Edward Tsang is a Computer Science professor at the University of Essex. He holds a first degree in Business Administration (major in Finance) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (1977), and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the Univ ...
- Director of Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents; Professor of Computer Science
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Yorick Wilks
Yorick Wilks FBCS (born 27 October 1939), a British computer scientist, is emeritus professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Sheffield, visiting professor of artificial intelligence at Gresham College (a post created especiall ...
- Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics
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Tracy Lawson - Professor of Plant Physiology; Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher
Humanities
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Robert D. Borsley - Professor of Linguistics (2000 - )
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Peter Carruthers - Lecturer, Philosophy Department (1985–1991)
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Donald Davie
Donald Alfred Davie, FBA (17 July 1922 – 18 September 1995) was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes.
Biography
Davie was born in Barnsley, ...
- Professor of Literature (1964–1968)
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Peter Kenneth Dews
Peter Kenneth Dews (born 22 April 1952) is a British philosopher, in the fields of critical theory and continental philosophy. He made his name with the ''Logics of Disintegration'', on the limitations of post-structuralism. He is Professor ...
- Professor of Philosophy (1988 - )
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Elaine Feinstein
Elaine Feinstein FRSL (born Elaine Cooklin; 24 October 1930 – 23 September 2019) was an English poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator. She joined the Council of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.
Earl ...
- Assistant Lecturer, English Literature (1967–1970)
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David Musselwhite - Senior Lecturer, English Literature (1974–2010)
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José Emilio Pacheco - Visiting Professor of Literature
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Michael Podro - Professor of Art History (1973 to 1997)
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Mark Sacks
Mark D. Sacks (29 December 1953 – 17 June 2008) was a British philosopher best known for his work on Immanuel Kant, Kant, Post-Kantian idealism, and the epistemological tradition in European Philosophy. He was one of the few philosophers i ...
- Professor of Philosophy (1993–2008)
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Derek Walcott - Nobel Laureate 1992, Professor of Poetry (2010 - 2015)
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Dawn Adès
Josephine Dawn Adès, (''née'' Tylden-Pattenson; born 6 May 1943), also known as Dawn Adès, is a British art historian and academic. She is professor emeritus of art history and theory at the University of Essex.
Early life and education
Ad ...
, CBE - Professor of Art History
Law
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Steve Peers, Professor of European laws
Social sciences
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Brian Barry
Brian Barry, (7 August 1936 – 10 March 2009) was a moral and political philosopher. He was educated at the Queen's College, Oxford, obtaining the degrees of B.A. and D.Phil. under the direction of H. L. A. Hart.
Along with David Braybrooke ...
- Professor of Politics
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Robin Blackburn
Robin Blackburn (born 1940) is a British historian, a former editor of '' New Left Review'' (1981–1999), and emeritus professor in the department of sociology at Essex University.
Background
Blackburn was educated at Hurstpierpoint College, ...
- Professor of Sociology
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Jean Blondel
Jean Blondel (26 October 1929 – 25 December 2022) was a French political scientist specialising in comparative politics. He was Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting professor at the University of Sie ...
- Professor of Politics (1964 to 1984)
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Kevin Boyle - former Director, Human Rights Centre (3 terms)
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Hugh Brogan
Denis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan (20 March 1936 – 26 July 2019) known as Hugh Brogan, was a British historian and biographer.
Early life
The son of Sir Denis Brogan and Olwen Phillis Francis (Lady Brogan), OBE, archaeologist and authority on R ...
- Professor of History, (1974 to 1998)
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Ian Craib - Professor of Sociology (1973–2003)
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Vic Gatrell
Vic Gatrell (or V.A.C. Gatrell) is a British historian. He is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Life
Born to working-class immigrant Londoners in South Africa, Gatrell went to state schools in Pietermaritzburg and Port Eliz ...
- Professor of British History (2003 - )
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Paul Hunt - former Director, Human Rights Centre (2001 to 2003)
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Bob Jessop - Professor, Department of Government (1975 to 1989)
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Anthony King - Professor, Department of Government
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Alan Knight - Lecturer, History Department (1973 to 1985)
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Ernesto Laclau
Ernesto Laclau (; 6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner ...
- Visiting Professor, Department of Government
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Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive style of crime drama. His most acclaimed works include the films ''Thief'' (1981), ...
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Geoffrey Martin - Professor, Department of History
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Harvey Molotch
Harvey Luskin Molotch (born January 3, 1940) is an American sociologist known for studies that have reconceptualized power relations in interaction, the mass media, and the city. He helped create the field of environmental sociology and has adv ...
- Professor of Sociology
* Sir
Nigel S. Rodley - current Head of Human Rights Centre (also a graduate: see below)
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John Scott - Professor of Sociology (1994-2008) and Honorary Doctorate
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Fatos Tarifa - guest lecturer
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Peter Townsend - founding professor of Sociology
Notable alumni
Academia in economics
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Erkin Bairam
Erkin Bairam (1958 - 21 May 2001Knowles, S., and McCombie, J. (2002)"Erkin Bairam: 1958-2001 His contribution to economics" ''Economics Discussion Papers'' No. 0212, University of Otago.Knowles, S., and McCombie, J. (2003), "Erkin Bairam’s Contri ...
- Professor of Economics,
University of Otago
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, motto = la, Sapere aude
, mottoeng = Dare to be wise
, established = 1869; 152 years ago
, type = Public research collegiate ...
(1991–2001)
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Panicos O. Demetriades - Professor of Financial Economics, University of Leicester
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Jean Drèze
Jean Drèze (born 1959) is a Belgian-born Indian welfare economist, social scientist and activist. He has worked on several developmental issues facing India like social welfare and gender inequality.
His co-authors include Nobel laureate in ...
- Professor of Economics,
Delhi School of Economics
Delhi School of Economics (DSE), popularly referred to as "D School", is a Higher Educational Institution within the University of Delhi. The Delhi School of Economics is situated in University of Delhi's North Campus in Maurice Nagar. Establ ...
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Colm Kearney - Professor of International Business, University College Dublin
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Graham Loomes
Graham Loomes, (born 5 August 1950) is a British economist and academic, specialising in behavioural economics. Since 2009, he has been Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science at the University of Warwick. He previously worked at the Un ...
- Professor of Economics,
University of Warwick
, mottoeng = Mind moves matter
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £7.0 million (2021)
, budget = £698.2 million (2020 ...
*
- Nobel Laureate 2010 British-Cypriot Economists, Professor of Economics at the
London School of Economics
The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...
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Michael Riordan - Professor of Economics, Columbia University
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Norman Schofield
Norman James Schofield (January 30, 1944 – October 12, 2019) was a Scottish-American political scientist, the Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy at the Washington University in St. Louis. - Professor of Political Economy,
Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St. Louis (WashU or WUSTL) is a private research university with its main campus in St. Louis County, and Clayton, Missouri. Founded in 1853, the university is named after George Washington. Washington University is r ...
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Richard J. Smith - Professor of Econometric Theory and Economic Statistics,
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
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Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis ( el, Ιωάννης Γεωργίου "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης, Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis, ; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist and politician. A former academic, he served as the Gree ...
- Professor of Economics,
University of Athens
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...
; Finance Minister of
Greece
Greece,, or , romanized: ', officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the southern tip of the Balkans, and is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Greece shares land borders ...
(2015 onward)
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John Whalley - Professor of International Trade at
University of Western Ontario
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Academia in other areas
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Martin J. Ball - Emeritus Professor of Linguistics,
Bangor University, Cymru/Wales
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Stephen J. Ball -
Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim (born Károly Manheim, 27 March 1893 – 9 January 1947) was an influential Hungarian sociologist during the first half of the 20th century. He is a key figure in classical sociology, as well as one of the founders of the sociolo ...
Professor of
Sociology of Education
The sociology of education is the study of how public institutions and individual experiences affect education and its outcomes. It is mostly concerned with the public schooling systems of modern industrial societies, including the expansion of ...
at the
Institute of Education
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (IOE) is the education school of University College London (UCL). It specialises in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties. Prior to ...
of
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
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Richard Barbrook
Richard Barbrook is an academic in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages at the University of Westminster.
Early life and education
Barbrook was born in Nottingham in 1956 and grew up in Canterbury, where his father taught ...
- Senior Lecturer in Humanities and Social Science,
University of Westminster
The University of Westminster is a public university, public university based in London, United Kingdom. Founded in 1838 as the Royal Polytechnic Institution, it was the first Polytechnic (United Kingdom), polytechnic to open in London. The Polyte ...
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John Barrell - Professor of English,
University of York
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David M. Barrett - Professor of Political Science,
Villanova University
Villanova University is a private Roman Catholic research university in Villanova, Pennsylvania. It was founded by the Augustinians in 1842 and named after Saint Thomas of Villanova. The university is the oldest Catholic university in Penns ...
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John Fauvel - historian of mathematics,
Open University
The Open University (OU) is a British public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students. The majority of the OU's undergraduate students are based in the United Kingdom and principally study off- ...
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James Gomez
James Gomez is a Singaporean academic , politician and a member of the Singapore Democratic Party.
Career
Academic career
Gomez was appointed as a visiting associate at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore in 1995, and was ...
- Associate Professor at the School of International Studies,
Universiti Utara Malaysia
Universiti Utara Malaysia (literally meaning Northern University of Malaysia, abbreviated as UUM) is a management university established on 16 February 1984 under the Universiti Utara Malaysia 1984 Order. It has a main campus in Sintok, Kedah ...
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Stephen F. Jones
Stephen F. Jones (born 1953) is an English expert on post- Communist societies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who currently serves as Chair of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts.
Jon ...
- academic in the field of Eastern European affairs
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Kusuma Karunaratne - Sri Lankan academic; university administrator; professor and scholar in the fields of Sinhalese language, comparative literature, and sociology,
University of Colombo
(Buddhih Sarvatra Bhrajate)
, mottoeng = ''Wisdom Enlightens''
, established =
, endowment = LKR 1.461 billion
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Ernesto Laclau
Ernesto Laclau (; 6 October 1935 – 13 April 2014) was an Argentine political theorist and philosopher. He is often described as an 'inventor' of post-Marxist political theory. He is well known for his collaborations with his long-term partner ...
- Post-Marxist political theorist at
Northwestern University
Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1851, Northwestern is the oldest chartered university in Illinois and is ranked among the most prestigious academic institutions in the world.
Charte ...
; Visiting Professor at Essex's Department of Government
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Jill Marsden - scholar of the work of philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche; lecturer at the
University of Bolton
, established = 2004 – gained University Status 1982 – Bolton Institute of Higher Education
, type = Public
, endowment = £160,000 (2009)
, administrative_staff = 700+
, chancellor ...
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Maxine Molyneux - Professor of Sociology,
Institute of Latin American Studies
The Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS) was one of nine research institutes that comprised the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. It was located in the landmarked Senate House building in Bloomsbury, central London.
F ...
, University of London
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John Warwick Montgomery
John Warwick Montgomery (born October 18, 1931) is a lawyer, professor, Lutheran theologian, and author living in France. He was born in Warsaw, New York, United States. From 2014 to 2017, he was Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy at ...
- American lawyer, theologian and academic known for his work in the field of
Christian apologetics
Christian apologetics ( grc, ἀπολογία, "verbal defense, speech in defense") is a branch of Christian theology that defends Christianity.
Christian apologetics has taken many forms over the centuries, starting with Paul the Apostle in ...
; Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy and Christian Thought at
Patrick Henry College
Patrick Henry College (PHC) is a private liberal arts non-denominational conservative Christian college located in Purcellville, Virginia. Its departments teach classical liberal arts, government, strategic intelligence in national security, econ ...
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Farish Ahmad Noor - Senior Fellow,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Alberto Pérez-Gómez Alberto Pérez-Gómez (born 24 December 1949) is an architectural historian and theorist known for taking a phenomenological approach to architecture. He lives in Montreal.
Biography
Born December 24, 1949, in Mexico City he graduated as an eng ...
- Professor of Architectural History,
McGill University
McGill University (french: link=no, Université McGill) is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec
Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous ...
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Nigel S. Rodley - international human rights lawyer and academic,
University of Essex
The University of Essex is a public research university in Essex, England. Established by royal charter in 1965, Essex is one of the original plate glass universities. Essex's shield consists of the ancient arms attributed to the Kingdom of Es ...
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Deborah Sugg Ryan - Professor of Design History and Theory,
University of Portsmouth
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Michael Tappin - academic associated with
Keele University
Keele University, officially known as the University of Keele, is a public research university in Keele, approximately from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as the University College of North Staffordshire, Keele ...
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Michael Taylor - Professor of Politics,
University of Washington
The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington.
Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...
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Nathan Widder - Professor of Political Theory,
Royal Holloway, University of London
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Jonathan Wilson - Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate; Director of the Center for Humanities,
Tufts University
Tufts University is a private research university on the border of Medford and Somerville, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1852 as Tufts College by Christian universalists who sought to provide a nonsectarian institution of higher learning. ...
*
Wong Chin Huat - Malaysian political scientist, activist and columnist
Politics and government
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Martin Docherty-Hughes
Martin John Docherty-Hughes (born 21 January 1971) is a Scottish National Party politician. He has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for West Dunbartonshire since 2015.
Early life and education
Docherty-Hughes was raised by his parents in Cly ...
- Scottish National Party politician
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Óscar Arias
Óscar Arias Sánchez (; born 13 September 1940 in Heredia, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. He was President of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and from 2006 to 2010. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 198 ...
- President of
Costa Rica and 1987
Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiolog ...
Winner
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Ian Austin
Ian Christopher Austin, Baron Austin of Dudley (born 6 March 1965) is a British politician who sits as a life peer in the House of Lords. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dudley North from the 2005 general election until the 2019 gene ...
- Former MP for
Dudley North
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John Bercow
John Simon Bercow (; born 19 January 1963) is a British former politician who was Speaker of the House of Commons from 2009 to 2019, and Member of Parliament (MP) for Buckingham between 1997 and 2019. A member of the Conservative Party prior t ...
- Speaker of the House of Commons
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John Biehl - Chilean lawyer, political scientist and diplomat
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Thozamile Botha -
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
n politician
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Virginia Bottomley
Virginia Hilda Brunette Maxwell Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, (née Garnett, born 12 March 1948) is a British Conservative Party politician, and headhunter. She was a Member of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons from 1984 ...
- Conservative Party politician
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Dragiša Burzan - Serbian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, former Foreign Minister of Montenegro
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Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury
Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury (born 6 October 1966) is the current and the first female Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad since April 2013. At 46 years of age, she became the youngest to assume the office. She was also the Chairperson of the Executive Co ...
- Speaker of the Bangladesh National Assembly
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Fátima Choi
Fátima Choi Mei Lei (born 1958) MSc, BSc was a Commissioner of Audit in Macau.
Born in Macau, Choi obtained a Master of Science degree in statistics and Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Essex.
She was an assist ...
- Director of Audit, Macau SAR, China
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James Duddridge
Sir James Philip Duddridge, (born 26 August 1971) is a British politician and former banker serving as Minister of State for International Trade. He has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochford and Southend East since 2005. He is ...
- Conservative Party politician, MP for
Rochford and Southend East
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Sean Farren - former Northern Irish politician
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Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen
Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen, (née Tasker; 10 December 1940 – 20 April 2018) was a British trade unionist, Labour peer and author of several pamphlets about industrial laws.
The daughter of Harry and Jessie Tasker, she ...
- British trade unionist
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Reshef Hen - former member of the Knesset
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Peter Housden - Permanent Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government
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John Howarth - Labour Party Politician, MEP for
South East England
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Omar Asghar Khan -
Pakistan
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i social activist, economist and politician
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Leung Yiu-chung
Leung Yiu-chung (, born 19 May 1953) is a Hong Kong politician. He is a member of the pro-labour Neighbourhood and Worker's Service Centre, part of the pan-democracy camp, and a former long-time member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kon ...
- member of the Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council
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Edward Lord - Liberal Democrat politician and a leading figure in English local government
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Siobhain McDonagh
Siobhain Ann McDonagh (born 20 February 1960) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Mitcham and Morden since the 1997 general election. She served as an Assistant Whip in the Labour Government, ...
- Labour Party politician
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Priti Patel - Conservative Party politician
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Donald C. Pogue - Chief Judge, United States Court of International Trade
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Dimitrij Rupel
Dimitrij Rupel (born 7 April 1946) is a Slovenian politician.
Early life and education
Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the PR Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March (hi ...
- first Foreign Minister of
Republic of Slovenia
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Mark Shields
Mark Stephen Shields (May 25, 1937 – June 18, 2022) was an American political columnist, advisor, and commentator. He worked in leadership positions for many Democratic candidates' electoral campaigns.
Shields provided weekly political anal ...
- Deputy Commissioner of the Jamaica Constabulary Force from 2005 to 2009
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Duncan Shipley-Dalton - former Northern Irish politician
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David Triesman, Baron Triesman - Labour Party Member in the
House of Lords
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; Chairman of the English Football Association
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Yanis Varoufakis
Ioannis "Yanis" Varoufakis ( el, Ιωάννης Γεωργίου "Γιάνης" Βαρουφάκης, Ioánnis Georgíou "Giánis" Varoufákis, ; born 24 March 1961) is a Greek economist and politician. A former academic, he served as the Gree ...
- Professor of Economics,
University of Athens
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...
; Finance Minister of
Greece
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(2015 onward)
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Hoshyar Zebari
Hoshyar Mahmud Mohammed Zebari, also simply known as Hoshyar Zebari (also spelled ''Hoshyar Zebari/Zibari'', Kurdish: ''Hişyar Zêbarî''; born 23 September 1953) is an Iraqi politician who formerly served as the Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq in ...
- Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs
Business and economics
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Richard Douthwaite - economist, co-founder of ''
Feasta''
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Már Guðmundsson
Már Guðmundsson (born 21 June 1954) is an Icelandic economist and policy maker. He was the Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland from 2009 to 2019.Prime Minister's Office (Iceland): Prime Minister appoints new Governor and Deputy Governor of t ...
- Former Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland
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Hanif Lalani - ex-CEO of BT Global Services
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Charles Mbire - Ugandan businessman, entrepreneur and industrialist
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Thorarinn G. Petursson - Chief Economist of the Central Bank of Iceland
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George Provopoulos - Governor of the
Bank of Greece and
European Central Bank
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Governing Council Member.
Actors and directors
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Nick Broomfield
Nicholas Broomfield (born 1948) is an English documentary film director. His self-reflective style has been regarded as influential to many later filmmakers. In the early 21st century, he began to use non-actors in scripted works, which he cal ...
- documentary filmmaker
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Stephen Daldry
Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Olivier Awards for his work in the West End and three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway. He has received thr ...
- film and theatre director (
East 15 Acting School
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),
BAFTA award-winner
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Blake Harrison - actor (Neil from ''
The Inbetweeners
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'') (East 15 Acting School)
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Vera Kolodzig
Vera Kolodzig (born 22 April 1985 in Lisbon) is a Portugal, Portuguese actress of Germany, German descent.
Life and career
Kolodzig, whose father is German, lived in Cascais until she was 18 and then went to London to study contemporary theatre a ...
- actress in theatre productions and several Portuguese soap operas (East 15 Acting School)
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Mike Leigh
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- film and theatre director (East 15 Acting School)
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Alison Steadman
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- actress (East 15 Acting School), twice nominated for BAFTA award
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David Yates - multi-BAFTA winning English film and television director
Law and order
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Peter Joslin - Chief Constable of
Warwickshire
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Michael J. Todd
Michael James Todd QPM (10 August 1957 – 11 March 2008[Michael ...](_blank)
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Chief Constable of
Greater Manchester
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from 2002 until 2008
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Mark Watson-Gandy – barrister
Media and journalism
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Dotun Adebayo
Oludotun Davey Moore "Dotun" Adebayo (born 25 August 1959) is a British radio presenter, writer, and publisher. He is best known for his work on '' Up All Night'' on BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as the obituary programme ''Brief Lives''.
Early ...
- radio presenter on BBC FiveLive
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Chris Boucher - television screenwriter, script editor and novelist
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Brian Hanrahan
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Early life, education and early career
Hanrahan was born in the cou ...
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- expert in international human rights law, humanitarian law and international criminal law