Past Members of CRIEFF

·        Professor Jensen-Butler
Christopher (‘Chris’) Jensen-Butler was Professor of Economics at the University of St Andrews during a period of remarkable expansion and development over the period 1995-2006. He was Head, School of Economics (and then Head of the enlarged School of Economics & Finance), University of St. Andrews from 1996 until his untimely death in 2006. From the time of his arrival in the School in 1995, he was an active member of the Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance and the Firm (CRIEFF). Obituary of Chris Jensen-Butler.

·        Professor V. Bhaskar
Bhaskar was a member of CRIEFF from 1995 to 1998.  He went on to become Professor of Economics, and Director of Graduate Studies (Research), at the University of Essex. He moved to a Chair in Economics at University College London in 2005. His research area is broadly microeconomics, with special interests in game theory and marriage markets.

·        Professor Jonathan Thomas was a member of CRIEFF from 2000 to 2003.  He is currently Professor of Economics in the School of Management and Economics, University of Edinburgh, and an Honorary Professor in the School of Economics & Finance, University of St Andrews.

·        Dr. Andrew Burke
Andrew was a May Wong Smith Research Fellow and member of CRIEFF. He went on to a Lectureship in International Entrepreneurship in the Department of Business Studies, University of Edinburgh, and a Readership in the Centre for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises, Warwick Business School. He currently holds a Professorship at Cranfield School of Management, where he is the founding Director of the Bettany Centre for entrepreneurship.

·        Dr. Laurence Lasselle
Laurence was May Wong Smith Research Fellow and member of CRIEFF from 1997 to 2000.  She is now Senior Lecturer in the School of Economics and Finance, University of St Andrews.

·        Dr. Wendy Morrison
Wendy was the May Wong Smith Research Fellow and member of CRIEFF from 1993 to 1995. She then moved to Lectureships in Economics at the University of Southampton and then of Nottingham.   Since 2001, she has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis, with a joint appointment to the Regenstrief Institute for Health Care.

·        Dr. Gerald Pech
Gerald was May-Wong Smith Fellow and member of CRIEFF, from 2001-2003. He then went to a Lectureship in Economics, at the National University of Ireland,  Galway, in 2003, where he worked on coalition bargaining, and budgetary policy. After three years at the American University in Bulgaria, he moved to a Chair in Microeconomics at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University Mainz, in 2010, where his main research areas are tax evasion, public debt and conflict resolution.

·        Dr. Susanna Sällström -Matthews
Susanna was the Stanley Smith Fellow and member of CRIEFF from 1997 to 2000. She is now College Lecturer, Fellow and Director of Studies in St John's College, Cambridge, and University Lecturer in Economics. Her main general research area is industrial organization, with specific interests in testing, deregulation, labeling, and the quality trap.

·        Dr. Julia A. Smith
Julia was a Research Assistant, Research Associate, then Research Fellow in CRIEFF from June 1993 until September 1998. After leaving CRIEFF, she became a member of St Antony’s College, Oxford, and conducted research in entrepreneurship at the Oxford Institute of Economics and Statistics, on a project run by James Foreman-Peck.  She became a Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at Cardiff University Business School, where she held a post from 2000-2008, before moving to a Readership in Accounting and Finance, at Strathclyde Business School. Her research area is, broadly, management accounting, with applications in the areas of small business, venture capital, financial reporting and corporate governance.

·        Dr. Ramesh Subramaniam
Ramesh was Stanley Smith Research Fellow, and member of CRIEFF, from 1993 to 1995.  Ramesh went on to further research at the Economic Growth Center, Yale University. He has now been at the Asian Development Bank for several years, where he is Principal Economist in Indonesia.  He works as a financial economist. His division is responsible for industry and finance. He specialises in the following economic issues: (i) policy and institutional environment facing SMEs in the region; (ii) business development services that are needed; and (iii) financing aspects to promote SME growth.

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