Membership
Neil Rickman (Leader)
Neil Rickman graduated from the University of Durham (BA (Hons) Econ) in 1988, before moving to McGill University (Montreal) to read for a PhD in Economics, which was completed in 1995. From 1991 to 1995 he was a Research Officer in Economics at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford, and a lecturer in Economics at Pembroke College, Oxford. He moved to Surrey in 1995, and became Professor of Economics, and Head of the School of Economics, in 2004. He is a CEPR (Public Policy) Research Affiliate and is the Chair of the Royal Economics Society's Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics (CHUDE) .
Aynur Alptekin (Research Fellow)
Parimal Bag
Professor Bag graduated from Presidency College with BSc Honours (First Class) in Economics in 1984 and also holds MAs in Economics from the University of Southern California (1987) and Cornell University (1991) and a PhD in Economics from Cornell University (1993). He has been a lecturer at Bilkent University, the University of Liverpool and the University of Ulster (Jordanstown), and a Senior Lecturer and Reader at Birkbeck College (University of London). He joined the University of Surrey as a Professor of Economics in 2004.
Paul Levine received a first-class BSc and a PhD, both in Mathematics, from the University of Manchester. He then taught and researched in the area of applied mathematics at Liverpool Polytechnic and the Polytechnic of North London before joining South Bank Polytechnic in 1972. His move into economics began at South Bank as the result of collaborative research with Sam Aaronovitch into merger activity and a year studying for an MSc in economics (distinction) at Queen Mary College followed in 1977. In 1984 he became a senior research officer at the Centre for Economic Forecasting, London Business School and was appointed Professor of Economics at the University of Leicester in 1989. In 1994 he moved to the University of Surrey.