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Visiting staff
The visiting staff profiles are in alphabetical order:
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Professor Roger Backhouse, Visiting Professor in
Economics
Roger Backhouse has a Chair at the University of Birmingham where he teaches and researches the History of Economic Thought and Economic Methodology. He graduated from the University of Bristol with first class honours and has a PhD from the University of Birmingham. He has taught at the Universities of London, Keele and Bristol as well as the University of Birmingham. His published work includes A History of Modern Economic Analysis (Oxford: Blackwell, 1985); Economists and the Economy (2nd ed., New Brunswick: Transaction, 1994); and Truth and Progress in Economic Knowledge (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1997) and numerous papers on the history of economic thought and methodological issues in the professional journals. He is currently writing a new book on the history of economic thought and editing volumes on the methodology of macroeconomics and the history of applied economics. He is Book Review Editor of the Economic Journal , an editor of the Journal of Economic Methodology and an Associate Editor of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought . His association with Buckingham began when he agreed to take over the History of Economic Thought course from Professor Mark Blaug in 1993. Course taught: History of Economic Thought |
Mr Bill Beach, Visiting Fellow in Economics and
International Studies
Mr Bill Beach is Director of the Center for Data Analysis and John M. Olin Senior Fellow in Economics at the Heritage Foundation, Washington DC, and a Visiting Fellow in International Studies at the University of Buckingham. Prior to joining Heritage in 1995, Mr Beach, a graduate of Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, who also holds a Master's degree in History and Economics from the University of Missouri-Columbia, held a variety of posts in the public, private and academic sectors, serving as a litigation economist with two Kansas City, Missouri, law firms, Campbell & Bysfield and Watson, Ess, Marshall & Enggas, where he specialised in analysing how anti-trust legal remedies would alter product pricing and availability. Later, as an economist for Missouri's Office of Budget and Planning, he designed and managed the state's econometric model and advised the Governor on revenue and economic issues. After a stint in the corporate headquarters of Sprint United, Inc., Mr Beach moved to the Washington DC area to serve as President of the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University. Under Bill Beach's leadership, the Heritage Foundation has acquired one of the largest privately-held public-policy databases in the United States, as well as a variety of peer-reviewed analytical models. These acquisitions allow the Center to produce some of the most sophisticated 'number crunching' done anywhere in the world. In addition to acquiring analytical models, Bill Beach helps build them. He was instrumental in developing the state-of-the-art econometric models Heritage uses to estimate, in detail, how proposed tax changes will affect individuals, families and various business sectors, as well as the overall US economy. |
Dr Charles Henn, Consultant Professor and Founding Director, MA in Global Affairs Dr Charles Henn was one of the first students of the University College at Buckingham (as the University was originally called), and graduated with a Licence in Arts (Honours) in 1978. He subsequently achieved an MSc at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences, and an LLM and PhD at Cambridge. He has taught at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand and, from 1990 to 2006, at the Graduate School of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham. He has advised foreign and other ministries of various countries both formally in closed-door sessions and informally through private discussions with seniors. These countries include the UK , France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, and major powers in East Asia. His papers circulate as internal papers in these ministries. His research and publications are on international law and global affairs, including contributions to the Guide to International Relations and Diplomacy (London, Continuum: 2002). Dr Henn invented the very effective personalised Professional Skills Training and Testing for students of International Law and has introduced and integrated them into each of the courses in the MA in Global Affairs programme. Charles Henn teaches on the MA in Global Affairs |
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Michael Jefferson studied at University College, Oxford and then the London School of Economics, before going into an economics consultancy, an industrial policy body, and then becoming Chief Economist of The Royal Dutch / Shell Group. He spent nearly 20 years at Shell in various roles, from Head of Planning in Europe to Director of Oil Supply and Trading. He then spent ten years as Deputy Secretary-General of the World Energy Council, where he began working with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as Contributing Author, Lead Author, Editorial Reviewer and Expert Reviewer, culminating in his receipt of the IPCC's certificate for his contributions to their award of the Nobel Peace Prize in December 2007. He has also written extensively on energy policy, including contributions to various UN bodies, and was for many years involved with the World Renewable Energy Network and Congresses. Alongside his work in business he has written several books in the fields of energy and economics; contributed to books on economic and social history; and written or co-authored many peer-reviewed papers in the energy and environmental field. He is a Visiting Professor at London Metropolitan University, and Professor of International Business and Sustainability in the Centre for International Business and Sustainability at London Metropolitan Business School. |
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Dr. Navari began her career in the US State Department as a broadcaster and feature writer for the US Information Agency. After completing her MSc (Econ) at the London School of Economics she joined Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, as assistant on the Survey and Documents, then an annual production of the Institute. She joined the University of Birmingham in 1972 where she designed the graduate professional programmes in International Studies. Her original specialisms were security studies, European integration and research method, but in her later career she has turned to a consideration of international law for International Studies students. She is well acquainted with a range of international organisations. Dr Navari's PhD thesis was on The State and International Relations: Concepts and Practice. Her publications include British Politics and the Spirit of the Age: Political Concepts in Action (Keele University Press, 2000), Chatham House and British Foreign Policy during the Inter-War Period (with Andrea Bosco, Lothian Foundation Press, 1994) and Internationalism and the State in the 20th Century (Routledge, 2000). Her current research is into international regulatory regimes and involves a number of linked projects covering regime development and the elaboration of new compliance systems. Her first professor at Birmingham was Harry Ferns who, in 1969, wrote the paper 'Towards an Independent University', which led directly to the founding of the University College at Buckingham, soon to become the University of Buckingham. Cornelia Navari teaches on the MA in Global Affairs |
| Professor Robinson graduated from the University of Manchester and worked for eleven years as a business economist. In 1968 he was appointed to the Chair of Economics at the University of Surrey where he founded the Economics Department and is now Emeritus Professor. Most of his research has been in energy economics and in utility regulation. He is sole or joint author of 23 books and monographs and over 150 papers, including studies of North Sea oil and gas, the British coal industry, energy policy, nuclear power, energy privatisation programmes, the international oil, gas and coal markets, and the British water industry. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, of the Society of Business Economists and of the Institute of Energy. He is a past member of the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and of the Secretary of State for Energy`s Advisory Council on Fuel and Power (ACORD). He was named British Institute of Energy Economics "Energy Economist of the Year" in 1992 and in 1998 received from the International Association for Energy Economics its "Outstanding Contribution to the Profession and its Literature" award. He has appeared as expert witness in numerous public inquiries, arbitration and legal proceedings in Britain and abroad. He was Editorial Director of the Institute of Economic Affairs from 1992 to 2002 and is a member of the Institute`s Advisory Council and a Trustee of the Wincott Foundation. Colin Robinson teaches Regulation and Privatisation |
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Dr Raouf Tajvidi, Visiting Lecturer in Politics A former architect, Dr Raouf Tajvidi changed his career to political science in 1993. He has been teaching comparative politics, foreign policy analysis, international relations and the politics of the European Union at various British as well as overseas universities since. He has a first degree in History and Politics from the Open University and a Master's in Diplomatic Studies from the University of Westminster. His doctorate, from Westminster's Centre for the Study of Democracy, was on United States foreign policy towards Iran. His research interests include EU-US relations, comparative politics and methodological implications for social science research. He is currently working on a book on US-Iran relations. Raouf Tajvidi teaches Politics |
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Professor Nicolaus Tideman, Visiting Professor of
Economics
Nicolaus Tideman is a graduate of Reed College (Economics and Mathematics) and has a PhD from the University of Chicago. He became an Assistant Professor of Economics at Harvard (1969-73) and was a Senior Staff Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisers (1970-71). In 1973 he joined the Center for Public Choice, then at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, as a Post-Doctoral Fellow. In 1975 he became an Associate Professor and in 1985 a Full Professor of Economics at VPI. His association with Buckingham began in 1983 when he gave our first course in Legal Economics. He returned in the summer of 1984 and spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Professor in 1985-86. He has since continued to offer courses and give seminar papers at regular intervals. In July 2001 he gave graduate classes in legal economics and he returned in the summer of 2002 to undertake research work at the Department. His research interests include public choice (especially the properties of different voting rules), legal economics, social justice and the economics of land value taxation. He has acted as a consultant for law firms in the United States and is a past President of the Schalkenbach Foundation. In the 1990s he travelled widely in Russia and Eastern Europe lecturing and advising on land value taxation. In the Autumn of 2001 he gave a course at the International Independent University of Environmental and Political Sciences (IIEUPS) in Moscow. |
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Dr Philip Towle, Visiting Lecturer Philip Towle is Reader in International Relations at the University of Cambridge and was previously Director of the Centre of International Studies there. He has worked for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Australian National University in Canberra. He has written 11 books including ones on enforced disarmament after wars, on post-war peace negotiations and on the history of Anglo-Japanese relations. He is currently finishing a book entitled Good Samaritans and Imperialists: the British and War from Wilberforce to Blair. |
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Dr Atilla Yayla, Visiting Professor Atilla Yayla is a graduate of Ankara University, from where he holds a PhD in Politics. He is President of the Association for Liberal Thinking and Professor of Politics and Political Economy at the University of Gazi in Turkey. He was winner of the Anthony Fisher Prize in 2000 for the book which he co-edited on Islam, Civil Society and Market Economy (Ankara: Liberte Books, 1999). Dr Yayla is the author of numerous books and articles in English and Turkish on Terrorism, The Road to Freedom, Constructivist Rationalism and Social Justice. His recent books in Turkish include Guide to Protect Democracy (2001) and Statist Mentality and Market Economy (2001). He has been a visiting scholar at the University of London and at George Mason University in the USA. |
