David Greenaway | |
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Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham | |
In office October 2008 –October 2017 | |
Preceded by | Sir Colin Campbell |
Succeeded by | Shearer West |
Sir David Greenaway DL (born 20 March 1952,Glasgow) is a British economist. He is professor of economics and was previously the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham,having succeeded Sir Colin Campbell on 1 October 2008. [1] In September 2016,he announced his decision to retire,and stepped down at the end of September 2017 with Shearer West succeeding Greenaway. [2]
After undergraduate and graduate studies at what is now Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Liverpool respectively,he was a lecturer at what is now De Montfort University and later a professor at the University of Buckingham,before joining the University of Nottingham in 1987. [3] From 2004 to 2008 he was a University Pro-Vice-Chancellor,having previously held this position between 1994 and 2001. [4] He was also Dean of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences between 1991 and 1994.
Greenaway was knighted in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to higher education. [6] [7]
He also provides advice to a range of Government Departments,which has included a report on Uninsured Driving in the UK for the previous Labour government Secretary of State for Transport. [8] Greenaway is also the director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy,which he helped establish in 1998. [9]
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