List of University of Essex people

The following is a list of notable University of Essex people (in alphabetical order).

Contents 1 Notable faculty 1.1 Vice Chancellors 1.2 Business & Economics 1.3 Sciences 1.4 Humanities 1.5 Social Sciences 2 Notable alumni 2.1 Academia Economics 2.2 Academia Others 2.3 Politics & Government 2.4 Business & Economics 2.5 Actors & Directors 2.6 Law and Order 2.7 Media and Journalism 2.8 Musicians 2.9 Architecture & Urban Planning 2.10 Philosophy 2.11 Literary Figures and Artists 2.12 Science & Technology 2.13 Human Rights 3 References

Notable faculty

Vice Chancellors

• Sir Albert Sloman (1963–1987)
• Professor Martin Harris (1987–1993)
• Professor Ron J. Johnston (1993–1995)
• Sir Ivor Crewe (1995–2007)
• Professor Colin Riordan (2007–present)^[1]

Business & Economics

• George Christopher Archibald - Professor, Economics Department (1964–1971)
• Anthony Barnes Atkinson - Professor of Economics (1971 to 1976), now at the University of Oxford
• Iwan Barankay - Lecturer (2003-2006), now at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Christopher Bliss - Professor of Economics (1971 to 1977), now at the University of Oxford
• Albert Rex Bergstrom - Professor, Professor Emeritus, Economics (1970–1992)
• V Bhaskar - Professor of Economics (1998-2005), now at University College London
• Alison Booth - Professor
• Kenneth Burdett - Professor, now at the University of Pennsylvania
• Marcus J. Chambers - Professor, associate editor of Journal of Econometrics
• Monojit Chatterji
• Melvyn Coles - Professor
• Alec Chrystal - Lecturer (1976–1984)
• Graciela Chichilnisky - Chair in Economics (1980 to 1981), now at Columbia University
• Jeff Frank - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader(1981–1994)
• Andrea Galeotti - Professor
• Sanjeev Goyal - Professor of Economics (2003-2006), now at Cambridge University
• Peter Hammond - Lecturer/Professor of Economics (1971 to 1979), then was at Stanford, now at University of Warwick
• Oliver Hart - Lecturer in Economics (1974 to 1975), now at Harvard University
• Tim Hatton - Professor
• Geoffrey Heal - Professor of Economics (1980 to 1983), now at Columbia Business School
• Ravi Kanbur - Chair in Economics (1983 to 1987), now at Cornell University
• Michael Keen - Professor of Economics, now at IMF
• David Laidler - Lecturer (1966–1969), now Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario
• Richard Lipsey - Head Professor of Economics (1963–1969)
• Sheri Markose - Professor of Economics
• Michio Morishima - Visiting Professor of Economics (1968 to 1970)
• Abhinay Muthoo - Lecturer/Reader/Department Head/Professor of Economics (1992-2008), now at the University of Warwick
• Michael Parkin - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Chairman in Economics (1967 to 1970), now at the University of Western Ontario
• Motty Perry - Professor of Economics (2006-2009), now at the University of Warwick
• Peter C.B. Phillips - Lecturer in Economics (1972 to 1976), now at Yale University
• Simon Price - Lecturer/ Senior Lecturer (1989–1995), now at City University, London
• Fabio Schiantarelli - Lecturer in Economics (1983–1988), now at Boston College
• Norman Schofield - Reader in Economics (1979–1986), now at Washington University, St Louis
• Anthony Shorrocks
• Francesco Squintani - Professor of Economics (2007-2011), now at the University of Warwick
• Anthony Venables - Lecturer in Economics (1978 to 1979), now at the University of Oxford

Sciences

• George Alfred Barnard - Professor of Mathematics (1966 to 1975)
• Mohammed Ghanbari - Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (1996 - )
• Owen Holland - Professor of Computer Science
• Edward Tsang - Director of Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents (CCFEA) and Professor of Computer Science
• Martin Henson - Professor of Computer Science

Humanities

• Dawn Ades - Professor, Art History and Theory Department
• Robert D. Borsley - Professor of Linguistics (2000 - )
• Peter Carruthers Lecturer, Philosophy Department (1985–1991)
• Donald Davie - Professor of Literature (1964–1968)
• Peter Dews Professor of Philosophy (1988 - )
• Elaine Feinstein - Assistant Lecturer, English Literature (1967–1970)
• Wyn Johnson - Lecturer, Linguistics Department (1985 -)
• David Musselwhite - Senior Lecturer, English Literature (1974–2010)
• Michael Podro - Professor of Art History (1973 to 1997)
• Mark Sacks - Professor of Philosophy (1993–2008)
• José Emilio Pacheco Visiting Professor of Literature

Social Sciences

• Jean Blondel - Professor of Politics (1964 to 1984)
• Kevin Boyle - Former Director, Human Rights Centre (3 terms)
• Hugh Brogan - Professor of History, (1974 to 1998)
• Ian Craib - Professor of Sociology (1973–2003)
• Vic Gatrell - Professor of British History (2003 - )
• Paul Hunt - Former Director, Human Rights Centre (2001 to 2003)
• Bob Jessop - Professor, Department of Government (1975 to 1989)
• Anthony King - Professor, Department of Government
• Emil Kirchner - Professor, Department of Government
• Alan Knight - Lecturer, History Department (1973 to 1985)
• Ernesto Laclau - Visiting Professor, Department of Government
• Geoffrey Martin - Professor, Department of History
• Harvey Molotch - Professor of Sociology
• Nigel S. Rodley - Current Head, Human Rights Centre (also a graduate: see below)
• David Sanders - Former Head, Department of Government
• Fatos Tarifa - Guest Lecturer
• Peter Townsend - Founding professor of Sociology

Notable alumni

Academia Economics

• Cliff Attfield - Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Bristol, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society; Fellow of the Journal of Econometrics^[2]
• Erkin Bairam - Professor of Economics, University of Otago (1991–2001)^[3]
• Yin-Wong Cheung - Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz
• Robert L. Crouch - Active Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara^[4]
• Panicos O. Demetriades - Professor of Financial Economics, University of Leicester
• Jean Drèze - Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics^[5]
• Paul Grout - Professor of Political Economy, University of Bristol
• Alan Harrison - incoming Provost, Queens' University ^[6]
• Colm Kearney - Professor of International Business, University College Dublin
• Graham Loomes - Professor of Economics, University of Warwick ^[7]
• Jack Mintz - Palmer Chair in Public Policy, School of Policy Studies, University of Calgary
• Christopher A. Pissarides - Nobel Laureate 2010 British-Cypriot Economists, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics ^[8]
• Norman Schofield - Dr. William Taussig Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center in Political Economy, Washington University, St. Louis
• Jeffrey Sheen - Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
• Richard J. Smith - Professor of Econometric Theory and Economic Statistics, University of Cambridge^[9]
• John Whalley - William G. Davis Professor of International Trade at University of Western Ontario^[10]
• Sam Wilson - Professor of Economics, University of Alberta

Academia Others

• Martin J. Ball - Professor of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• Andrew Bennett - Principal, Saint Joseph's Institution International (Singapore)
• Richard Barbrook - Senior Lecturer in Humanities & Social Science, University of Westminster
• John Barrell - Professor of English, University of York
• David M. Barrett - Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
• Anthony Cohn - Professor of Automated Reasoning, University of Leeds
• Kusuma Karunaratne - Sri Lankan academic, university administrator, Professor and scholar in the fields of Sinhalese Language, Comparative Literature, and Sociology, University of Colombo
• Alberto Pérez-Gómez - Professor of Architectural History, McGill University
• James Gomez - Professor of Public Relations, Monash University & researcher in Media and Politics in South-East Asia
• Stephen F. Jones - Academic in the field of Eastern European Affairs
• Ladislav Kohout - Professor of Computer Science, Florida State University
• Ernesto Laclau - Post-Marxist political theorist at Northwestern University, also Visiting Professor at Essex's Department of Government
• Jill Marsden - scholar of the work of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and lecturer at the University of Bolton
• Peter Matanle - Academic Sociologist & Lecturer, University of Sheffield
• Jack Mintz - Palmer Chair in Public Policy, School of Policy Studies, University of Calgary
• Maxine Molyneux - Professor of Sociology, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London
• Farish Ahmad Noor, Senior Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Nigel S. Rodley - International Human Rights Lawyer and Academic, University of Essex
• Jörg Siekmann - Professor of Computer Science, Universität des Saarlandes
• Michael Tappin - academic associated with Keele University
• Michael Taylor - Professor of Politics, University of Washington
• Yeap Wai Kiang - Director of the Institute for Information Technology Research at the Auckland University of Technology.
• Nathan Widder - Reader in political theory, Royal Holloway, University of London
• Jonathan Wilson - Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate and Director of the Center for Humanities, Tufts University
• Wong Chin Huat - Malaysian political scientist, activist and columnist.

Politics & Government

• Ian Austin - Labour Party Politician, MP for Dudley North^[11]
• John Bercow - Speaker of the House of Commons ^[12]
• Mark Bergfeld - student activist and member of the National Executive Council of the National Union of Students (NUS)
• John Biehl - Chilean lawyer, political scientist, and diplomat
• Virginia Bottomley - Conservative Party politician ^[13]
• Thozamile Botha - South African Politician
• Dragiša Burzan - Serbian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Former Foreign Minister of Montenegro
• Fátima Choi - Director of Audit, Macau SAR, China
• Sean Farren - former Northern Irish Politician
• Duncan Shipley-Dalton - former Northern Irish Politician
• James Duddridge - Conservative Party Politician, MP for Rochford and Southend East
• Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen - British Trade Unionist
• Reshef Hen - former member of the Knesset.
• Peter Housden - Permanent Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government
• Omar Asghar Khan - Pakistani social activist, economist and politician
• Leung Yiu Chung - Member of the Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council
• Edward Lord - Liberal Democract politician and a leading figure in English local government
• Siobhain McDonagh - Labour Party politician
• Priti Patel - Conservative Party politician
• Donald C. Pogue - Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade
• Paduka Osman bin Pengiran Haji Patra - Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Brunei
• Sipho Pityana - Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Africa
• Dr Dimitrij Rupel - first Foreign Minister of Republic of Slovenia
• Oscar Arias Sanchez - President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
• Muhammad Ali Saif - Former Pakistani Minister of Tourism
• David Triesman, Baron Triesman - Labour Party Member in the House of Lords, Chairman of the English Football Association
• Dr Kevin Roberto Casas Zamora - Former Vice-President of Costa Rica (2004–2007)
• Hoshyar Zebari - Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs

Business & Economics

• Richard Douthwaite - Economist, co-founder of Feasta
• Mar Guðmundsson - Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland
• Mr. Il Houng Lee - IMF Senior Resident Representative (China) (MA in Economics)
• Thorarinn G. Petursson - Chief Economist of the Central Bank of Iceland
• George Provopoulos - Governor of the Bank of Greece & European Central Bank Governing Council Member.
• Charles Mbire - Ugandan businessman, entrepreneur and industrialist
• Yusli Mohamed Yusoff - CEO of Bursa Malaysia (Malaysia Exchange)
• Hanif Lalani - ex-CEO of BT Global Services (replaced after 14 months)

Actors & Directors

• William Burdett-Coutts - renowned Artistic Director of The Assembly, London
• Stephen Daldry - Film & Theatre Director (East 15 Acting School), BAFTA award-winner
• Nick Broomfield - Documentary film maker
• Mike Leigh - Film & Theatre Director (East 15 Acting School)
• Alison Steadman - Actress (East 15 Acting School), twice-nominated for BAFTA award
• David Yates - multi-BAFTA winning English film and television director

Law and Order

• Peter Joslin - Chief Constable of Warwickshire
• Michael J. Todd - Chief Constable of Greater Manchester from 2002 till 2008

Media and Journalism

• Dotun Adebayo - Radio Presenter on BBC FiveLive^[14]
• Brian Hanrahan - BBC foreign correspondent^[15]
• Isobel Lang - Meteorological Office weather forecaster (BBC, Sky) and TV presenter
• Nick Margerrison - Radio Presenter on Kerrang!Radio

Musicians

• Clint Boon - Keyboardist and lead singer of the Inspiral Carpets
• Steve Chandra Savale - Asian Dub Foundation guitarist
• Gilad Atzmon - Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist

Architecture & Urban Planning

• Daniel Libeskind - architect to build the Freedom Tower and Memory Foundations on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City

Philosophy

• Simon Critchley - British Philosopher, Academic at the New School for Social Research
• William McNeill - British Philosopher, Academic at DePaul University

Literary Figures and Artists

• Charlie Connelly - Author and Broadcaster
• Nick Dear - writer for stage, screen and radio
• Claudia Jenner - Peruvian Linguist
• Kee Thuan Chye - Malaysian dramatist, poet and journalist
• Fraser Harrison - English Writer
• M. Murat İldan - Turkish Playwright
• Nigel Jenkins - Renowned Welsh Poet & Writer
• Marianne Majerus - Photographer
• Okello Oculi - Ugandan Novelist & Poet
• Ben Okri - Booker Prize Winner
• Douglas Oliver - English Contemporary Poet and Novelist
• Kate Rhodes - British Poet
• Michelene Wandor - English Playwright & Poet
• Nathan Zach - Israeli Poet

Science & Technology

• Richard Bartle - Co-creator of MUD1, the first ever MUD (Multi-User Dungeon)^[16]
• Phil O'Donovan - Founder (Cambridge Silicon Radio) Developer of bluetooth technology^[17]
• Roy Trubshaw - Co-creator of MUD1, the first ever MUD (Multi-User Dungeon)^[18]
• Rodolfo Neri Vela - Mexico's first astronaut ^[19]

Human Rights

• Akram H. Chowdhury - Founder of the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Centre for Trauma Victims
• Alex Neve - Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada
• Antonio Pradjasto - Deputy Director of Demos' Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Indonesia

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