Council of Economic Advisers - Membership

 

CEA Chair Crawford Beveridge (Chair) – Crawford Beveridge is a technology industry veteran with more than 35 years of experience.  This included working as an Executive at Sun Microsystems for over 15 years. In 1991, Beveridge left Sun to become Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise. Beveridge returned to Sun in April 2000 as Executive Vice President of People and Places and Chief Human Resources Officer. In addition to being the Non-Executive Chairman of the Board of Autodesk, Beveridge is Chairman of Scottish Equity Partners Ltd, and a Non-executive board member of eSilicon and iomart Group PLC. He was awarded a C.B.E. in the New Years Honours list in 1995.

Dr Duncan CEA

 Dr Kirsty Duncan – Joined the council in February 2013 and is a member of Parliament for Etobicoke North, Toronto, Canada. Former Research Director at the Institute of Corporate Citizenship, Rotman School of Management and on-leave Associate Professor in Health Studies at the University of Toronto. Dr Duncan received the Knowledge Millennium Award in 2009 for her work in pandemic influenza and has completed work, regarding climate change and human health for North America, for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC).

Professor Andrew Hughes Hallet
 

Professor Andrew Hughes Hallett - Professor of Economics and Public Policy at George Mason University in the US, visiting Professor at Harvard University and Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews. Professor Hughes Hallett specialises in international economic policy and has acted as a consultant for the World Bank, the IMF, the Federal Reserve Board, the UN, the OECD, the European Commission and central banks around the world.

Jim McColl
 

 Jim McColl - Chairman and Chief Executive of Clyde Blowers - a company transformed under his leadership into a portfolio of global engineering companies. He also serves as Chairman of the Welfare to Work Forum which has seen 15,000 Scots enter employment.
 

Sir James Mirrlees CEA
 

 Professor Sir James Mirrlees - Professor Emeritus at Cambridge University and distinguished professor-at-large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. In 1996 Sir James was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on economic models and equations about situations where information is asymmetrical or incomplete. In 2010, he led the Mirrlees Review of taxation which examined the principles and characteristics of a good tax system for open developed economies in the 21st century.
 
Susan Rice CEA
 		 Lady Susan Rice - Managing Director of Lloyds Banking Group Scotland and former Chair and Chief Executive of Lloyds TSB Scotland. Lady Rice is also a non-executive director of Scottish and Southern Energy, the Bank of England, Big Society Capital and Scotland's Futures Forum. She chairs the Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh’s Festivals Forum, NGS Patrons and the Finance Group on Climate Change. She is also a Member of Oxford's Saϊd Business School's Advisory Council, and chairs the ground-breaking Chartered Banker Professional Standards Board.
 
Louise Richardson CEA
 		 Professor Louise Richardson - Professor Richardson is Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews.  Professor Richardson spent twenty years on the Faculty of Harvard University where she specialised in international relations. She currently serves on the advisory board for a number of institutions in the UK, Ireland, and the US. Her work centres upon improving the understanding of the humanities, political violence, and human rights.
 
Professor Frances Ruane
 		 Professor Frances Ruane - Director of Ireland's Economic and Social Research Institute previously an Associate Professor of Economics at Trinity College, Dublin. She is widely published in the area of international economic and industrial development.
 
Joeseph Stiglitz CEA Professor Joseph Stiglitz - Professor Stiglitz is Professor of  Economics at Columbia University. He won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001 and was a member of the US Council of Economic Advisers from 1993-95, serving as CEA Chair from 1995-97. He was Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000. In 2009 he was appointed by the President of the United Nations General Assembly as Chair of the Commission of Experts on Reform of the International Financial and Monetary System.
 

 

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