Who's who
The Economics Leadership Team comprises the Heads of Economics and the Directors of Postgraduate Research, Postgraduate Taught Programmes and Undergraduate Taught Programmes, respectively (all listed below). The ELT is further supported by the leaders of our different Research Area Groups and meets on a monthly basis to discuss, review and develop research and teaching strategies for the Economics Discipline Area in the School of Social Sciences at Manchester.
Head of Economics (Research and Strategy), Professor Chris Orme
Chris Orme held Temporary Lectureships at the Universities of Hull (1984/5) and York (1985/7) before moving to the University of Nottingham in 1987. Returned to York in 1989 and then took the Chair in Econometrics at Manchester in 1995.
Honorary Visiting Professor, University of York, 1997-date. Member of the ESRC Strategic Research Board (2005-2009). Advisory Panel Chair, World Economy and Finance Programme (2006-2010). Advisory Panel Member, CeMMAP (2008-date). Managing Editor of The Manchester School journal from 1996-2005, 2008-date. Research Director in Economics (1997-2000). Research Dean in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law (2000-2004). Previously Head of Economics (2004-2007).
Published widely in the leading economics, econometrics and statsistics journals (Econometrica, Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, Econometrics Journal, Econometrics Review, International Economic Review, Biometrika), principally in the area of econometric misspecification theory and testing although his collaborative work addresses issues in labour economics (Economic Journal, Journal of Applied Econometrics).
Head of Economics (Teaching and Operations), Ken Clark
Ken Clark studied economics at the University of Glasgow before coming to Manchester in 1989. He has been Head of Economics (T&O) since August 2010.
Ken's research interests lie mainly in the area of applied labour economics where he has published widely on the labour market position of ethnic minorities and immigrants. His publications include papers in Economic Journal, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Labour Economics, Oxford Economic Papers and the International Journal of Game Theory.
Director Postgraduate Research, Professor Paul Madden
After undergraduate and postgraduate programmes at the Universities of Birmingham and Essex, Paul Madden spent 3 years lecturing at Aberdeen University and at Adelaide University, before taking up a lectureship in Manchester in 1978. Promotion to Senior Lecturer followed in 1984, and to a Chair in economic Theory in 1991.
Research activity has covered a wide range of theoretical topics in both macroeconomics initially and microeconomics more recently. Most recently the economics of professional sports leagues has become a major interest. Research papers have been published in a range of journals, including Econometrica, Economic Theory, European Economic Review, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Public Economics and the Review of Economic Studies.
Postgraduate Research Co-ordinator, Professor Alastair Hall
Alastair Hall graduated at Warwick University in 1981 and then went on to pursue postgraduate studies, first at Southampton University (MSc Economics and Econometrics, 1983) and then back at Warwick (PhD Economics, 1985).
Alastair joined Manchester in January 2007. He previously worked at North Carolina State University, where he was appointed full professor in 1992, and as a research associate on a project funded by American Statistical Association at the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. He has held visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Birmingham University, and is currently a distinguished adjunct professor at American University in Washington, DC.
Alastair has published in many of the leading econometrics and statistics journals including Econometrica, the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Journal of Econometrics, Econometric Theory, the Review of Economic Studies, the International Economic Review, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics and Biometrika. In 2005, his book entitled Generalized Method of Moments was published by Oxford University press in their Advanced Texts in Econometrics series.
Alastair is currently an associate editor of Econometric Reviews and the Journal of Financial Econometrics. He has previously served as both a co-editor and an associate editor of the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics.
Director Postgraduate Taught Programmes, Dr Len Gill
Len Gill graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc(Econ) degree and then completed an MSc(Econ) degree in 1971. He obtained a Phd from the University of Edinburgh in 1983.
After leaving LSE in 1971, he took up a research post in the University of Edinburgh and was subsequently appointed to a lectureship. Len moved to Manchester in 1977.
Len's research interests cover all of econometrics in principle, in particular quantile regression, and currently large scale regression computations using sparse matrices. Recent publications are in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series A) and the Journal of Financial Econometrics.
Director Undergraduate Studies, Dr George Bratsiotis
George Bratsiotis completed the BA Economics degree at Guildhall University (London), and then obtained the MSc in Economics (1991) and PhD in Economics (1996) both from Queen Mary College (University of London). George joined the University of Manchester in the academic year 1995/96. George has also held visiting positions at Brunel University, (UK, in 2000) and at the University of Athens, (Greece, in 2006).
George's current research interests include macroeconomic theory and business cycles, stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models with New Keynesian rigidities and credit market imperfections, and models of wage and price setting and unemployment. George has published in various international journals including, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, European Journal of Political Economy, Economics Letters, Economic Modelling, Journal of Socio-Economics, Economics Bulletin, Applied Economics Letters.
George is on the editorial board of The Manchester School. He is an ex-officio committee member of the Money Macro and Finance (MMF) research group and a founding member of the Centre for Growth and Business Cycle Research (CGBCR).