Congratulations to Maarten De Ridder and Thomas Auld (Faculty PhD students) who have both won prizes at the CERF Cambridge Best Finance Student Paper Award.
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Emerirus Professor Geoffrey Harcourt, was made a Companion of the Order of Australia in General Division (AC), in the Queen's Birthday Honours. An AC is the highest order of the Orders of Australia.
Oleg Kitov (Selwyn and Robinson College) received the award for best undergraduate supervisor of the year. The awards are based on student nominations of teachers who have had a profound impact on their education in Cambridge.
Peter Andreas Nielsen (MPhil in Economics Student) was awarded two prizes at the Model WTO at the University of St. Gallen and the WTO Headquarters in Geneva. Peter received the prize for being the best negotiator on the Special and Differential Treatment and Dispute Prevention Committee and another prize for the second best essay submitted during the application process.
Professor Monojit Chatterjee has been appointed as a member of the Police Remuneration and Review Body and the National Crime Agency (NCA) Remuneration Review Body.
Jane was an undergraduate in the Faculty of Economics (1967-70), having been awarded a National Coal Board Scholarship to attend Cambridge. After completing a PhD at Cornell, Mass., USA, and being appointed to lecturing positions in the USA, she returned to Cambridge as a lecturer, and subsequently Reader, in the Faculty of Economics from 1980-1998.
Dr. Tiago Cavalcanti been invited to be an Associate Editor for the Economic Journal.
The Faculty of Economics Athena SWAN Self-Assessment Committee was formed in October 2017 and includes academics, administrators and students. See our Equality and Diversity pages for more details.
Prof Sanjeev Goyal is the holder of the next Ganshof van der Meersch Chair. In Spring 2018 he will deliver a cycle of lectures at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he will be welcomed by Professors Anne Weyembergh (Institute for European Studies), Patrick Legros and André Sapir.
The Faculty is delighted to announce that PhD student Oliver Exton has been elected as one of the UK Data Service Data Impact Fellows for 2017.
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Annela Anger-Kraavi, who is a College Lecturer in Economics at Downing College in Cambridge and researcher at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership as well as Chief Executive of the Cambridge Trust of New Thinking in Economics, has been appointed to two leading international positions, as special advisor to the European Council on international climate policy and as vice chair of th
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The Faculty would like to congratulate first-year economics student, Ekaterina Christova who won The Future CFO of the Year Award at this years Undergraduate of the Year Awards.
Professor Partha Dasgupta was recently inducted as Fellow of the (American) Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Unfortunately Prof. Dasgupta was unable to attend the ceremony, but his acceptance letter was read at the occasion by the current President, Laura Taylor.
Phd student Maarten de Ridder has won one of the Cambridge Student Union's, Student-Led Teaching Awards and will be honored at a ceremony in the University Combination Room on May 9th.
Dr. Meredith Crowley, with co-investigators Prof. Corsetti and Dr. Bartels (Law), wins £300k ESRC grant to study the impact of trade policy and exchange rate shocks on trade volumes and prices in post-Brexit Britain.
The Early Career Fellowship scheme at CRASSH, jointly funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and the Schools of Arts & Humanities and Humanities & Social Sciences, allows Cambridge University Teaching Officers and College Teaching Officers to apply for an additional term of research leave in order to develop a new research project.
Details of the G-Research PhD Prize:
Research PhD Prize in Quantitative Finance
A chance to win £10,000
The Faculty of Economics and Cambridge-INET are delighted to announce the news that Professor Kaivan Munshi has been awarded the 2016 Infosys Prize in the Social Sciences
The Leverhulme Trust is very pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Philip Leverhulme Prizes.
From 1975 to 1981, Oliver Hart was an Assistant Lecturer and then Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and a Fellow of Churchill College. He was born in London in 1948, and studied Mathematics as an undergraduate at Kings College. He gained his PhD from Princeton University in 1974. Professor Hart is currently the Andrew E.
The Faculty would like to congrarualte Ms Katja Smetanina, who has been awarded the Royal Economic Society Junior Fellowship for 2016-17. You can read about Katja's research and the Junior Fellowship award at the RES website.
The Faculty is very pleased to announce that Dr Meredith Crowley has been elected as a CEPR Research Fellow.
Each year the International Finance and Banking Society Conference chooses the best paper drawn from the papers presented at the IFABS 2016 Barcelona Conference and awards the IFABS Best Research Paper Award. The Faculty is pleased to announce that Jonathan Smith was awarded the IFABS Best Ph.D. Paper Award.
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Teresa was contacted by the VC's office and asked if she would like to receive an invitation. The Vice Chancellor's Office had noted her long service.
Garden parties at Buckingham Palace are a tradition that Her Majesty has kept for years, usually as a way of thanking people for their services to the community.
Combined Teresa and Anne's service total approximately 88 years.
The prize committee in particular highlights Dasgupta’s pioneering work in establishing new paradigms at the nexus of society and sustainable development, and his continued commitment to problems of population and poverty, loss of biodiversity, and conservation in its announcement.
The consolidator grants, worth up to €2 million each, are awarded annually to excellent mid-career scientists to enable them to consolidate their research teams and to develop their innovative ideas.
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A LEADING economist has made a major investment in the future of Economics at Cambridge. Alumnus Dr Mohamed El-Erian and his wife Jamie Walters have donated $25 million to create the El-Erian Institute for Human Behaviour and Economic Policy.