Michael John Driscoll (born 27 October 1950,

Warrington Warrington () is a town and unparished area in the Borough of Warrington, borough of the same name in the ceremonial county of Cheshire, England, on the banks of the River Mersey. It is east of Liverpool, and west of Manchester. The populati ...

) is an economist, sometime Chair of the Coalition of Modern Universities in the UK and from 1996 to 2015 was Vice-Chancellor of

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. In 2016, he was appointed President and Vice-Chancellor of Taylor's University in

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Early life

Driscoll was born and brought up in Warrington. From Trent Polytechnic, he obtained a BA in Economics.

Career

He lectured in Economics at the

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from 1977-1989. He spent three years during this period on

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s at the

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in Paris. From 1989-91 he was Head of Economics at Middlesex University. He was Chairman of the Coalition of Modern Universities from 2003-2007 (became Million+ in 2004).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Driscoll, Michael 1950 births Living people British economists Vice-Chancellors of Middlesex University People educated at Boteler Grammar School People from Warrington Alumni of Nottingham Trent University Academics of the University of Birmingham Academics of Middlesex University