The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism hosts Jonathan Michie on the topic of 'How To Fix the Economy - And Economics'
Date and time
Mon, 30 January 2023, 18:00 – 19:30 GMT
Location
Sidgwick Site - Lecture Block Room 5
JONATHAN MICHIE is Professor of Innovation and Knowledge Exchange and Pro-Vice Chancellor (without portfolio) at the University of Oxford, where he is also President of Kellogg College. Before returning to Oxford in 2008, he was Director of the Business School at the University of Birmingham, and before that, he held the Sainsbury Chair of Management at Birkbeck College, University of London, where he was Head of the School of Management & Organisational Psychology. Previously, he was at the Judge Business School, Cambridge, where he was also a Fellow & Director of Studies in Economics at Robinson College, and a Research Associate of the ESRC Centre for Business Research. He moved to academia from Brussels, where he was an Expert to the European Commission. Jonathan became Chair of the UK’s Universities Association for Lifelong Learning (UALL) in May 2020. He is Managing Editor of the International Review of Applied Economics, was joint secretary of the 2019 Centenary Commission on Adult Education, and was an ‘interdisciplinary’ Panel Member for Management & Business in the UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 exercise. Michie is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, on whose Council he served for six years, and was awarded an OBE for services to Education.
His publications include An Advanced Introduction to Globalisation (Edward Elgar, 2017), and with Michael Kitson, The Political Economy of Competitiveness: Essays on employment, public policy and corporate performance (Routledge, 2000).