David Greenaway (Economist)
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Professor David Greenaway is a professor of economics and current Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham and will succeed Sir Colin Campbell as Vice-Chancellor in September 2008.[1] Greenaway is the director of The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy which he also helped establish in 1998.[2]
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Greenaway has edited several books on economics and has been published widely in academic journals.
He currently chairs the Armed Forces Pay Review Body for the UK government, which advises the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Defence on the remuneration of servicemen and women. As chair of this body, David Greenaway also serves on the United Kingdom's Senior Salary Review Body. Both are independent committees, under the auspices of the Office of Manpower Economics.
David Greenaway joined The University of Nottingham in the late 1980s, and was previously a Professor of Economics, Senior Lecturer and Lecturer at Buckingham University and Leicester Polytechnic. He has served as Head of the Department of Economics and as Dean of Law and Social Sciences.
His senior academic management career at The University of Nottingham has included two terms of office as Pro-Vice-Chancellor responsible for the management of capital investment projects and campus infrastructure, including multi-million pound developments in the UK and Asia. David Greenaway managed delivery of the Jubilee Campus in Nottingham - a major brownfield regeneration project, with sustainably designed buildings and modern architecture.
Regarded as perhaps the closest and most highly rated colleague of Vice-Chancellor Professor Sir Colin Campbell, Greenaway is rated for no-nonsense but nonetheless courteous style, an ability toughly to steer decisions through to outcomes, and he is widely regarded as unstuffy and egalitarian in approach. His appointment as Vice-Chancellor was praised by Nottingham Students' Union, who described him as 'student friendly'. Amongst those swift to praise his promotion were the Financial Times Chief Economic commentator Martin Wolf, the Director-General of the Russell Group Dr Wendy Piatt, and the distinguished economist Professor Lord Stern of Brentwood, of the London School of Economics.
His academic interests include labour market analysis and the impact of developing economies. He recently secured major investment from the Leverhulme Trust for work assessing the effect of China on global trade. He has advised the World Bank, United Nations and HM Treasury.
Public duties have also included the delivery of a report on the scale and cost of uninsured drivers, with accompanying recommendations for HM Secretary of State for Transport.
Greenaway is Scottish by birth but grew up in Nottingham, and attended the Henry Mellish School in the city. He studied his Masters degree at Liverpool University.
Said by Who's Who to enjoy wine, reading and football, he was recently described by the Nottingham Evening Post as a 'lifelong Nottingham Forest fan and a regular at the City Ground' and by other publications as 'an intellectual heavyweight.'
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| Preceded by Colin Campbell (academic) |
Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham Due to take up appointment in Sept 2008 |
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