CRIEFF:
Past Research Students
Sarah Beattie
‘Compromising a Capitalist Enclave: China’s
utilisation of the Hong Kong economy’
(Supervisor Gavin C Reid) Graduated MPhil 1999. After extensive field work in
Hong Kong, Sarah moved to New York
to work with Fitch Ratings, where she was mercifully unharmed on 9/11. She then
became Director of Fitch Ratings in London.
Mathilde Cheix ‘Jevons, Debreu and the Foundations of Mathematical
Economics: an historical and semiotic analysis’ (Supervisor Gavin C Reid)
Graduated 1997. Mathilde became a lecturer at Grenoble
Institute of Technology (INP) in France where she focuses on issues
of the global economy, including geopolitical areas, world agents, and
mainstream market regulation.
George Frynas ‘Litigation in the Nigerian Oil Industry: a
socio-legal analysis of the legal disputes between oil companies and village
communities’ (Supervisor Matthias Beck) Graduated 1999. After posts in the University of Coventry
and the University of Birmingham, George became Professor of Corporate
Social Responsibility at Middlesex
University Business
School.
Benjamin Gully,
‘Measures of Solvency in the Regulation of the UK Life Assurance Industry’
(Supervisor, Gavin C Reid) Graduated 2000. Benjamin moved first to the Bank of
England for two years, and then to Canada, where he has carved out a
remarkable career in the regulation of BOFI (banks and other financial
intermediaries). He led much of the domestic work on implementing the Basel 2
Capital Accord, which was a project of immense scale and significance for banks
(and regulators). He is currently Managing Director of Risk Assessment
& Analytics at the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
(OSFI) Canada.
Helen Paul
‘The Macroeconomic Basis of the South
Sea Bubble’ (Supervisor
Gary Shea) Graduated 2003. Helen went on to hold an ESRC postdoctoral
fellowship in the School of Economics & Finance, University
of St Andrews, and is currently a
member of the Economics Department, in the School
of Social Sciences, University of Southampton.
Bernadette Power ‘Factors which Foster the Survival of Long Lived Small Firms’
(Supervisor, Gavin C Reid) Graduated 2004. Bernadette is a Lecturer in
Economics in the College
of Business and Law,
University College Cork, Ireland.
Ioannis-Dionysios Salavrakos ‘An
Economic and Business Strategy Analysis of Joint Ventures Between
Greek Enterprises and Enterprises inn the Balkan Countries and Russia:
from the Greek parent company perspective’ (Supervisor Gavin C Reid) Graduated
1997. Ioannis has been held visiting posts in several
London based universities, and is currently a
Lecturer in Business Administration at the University
of Iononnida,
Greece.
Torcail Stewart ‘Indigenous Wildcatters: clandestine prospectors of
the petroleum world: an exploratory study of British independent exploration
and production companies’ (Supervisor, Gavin C Reid) Graduated MPhil 2005. Torcail went on to become an investment analyst with
Alliance Trust’s UK large
cap equity fund, and is currently an investment manager in the fixed income
team at Baillie Gifford, Edinburgh.
He is a member of the UK Society of Investment Professionals.
Francesca Visintin ‘Corporate Governance and Product Innovation in the
Machine Tools Sector in Italy’
(Supervisor, Gavin C Reid) Graduated 2001.
Francesca went on to a Lectureship in the Department of Economics, University of Udine, and is now a Lecturer in the MIB
School of Management.
Clevo Wilson ‘Cost and policy implications of agricultural pollution, with special
reference to pesticides’ (Supervisor Felix FitzRoy)
Graduated 1998. He went on to a postdoctoral fellowship at the
University of Queensland. He is now an
Associate Professor in the School
of Economics and Finance,
Queensland University of Technology. His main research areas are environmental
and resource economics.
GCR
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