George Hosking | |
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| Born | George Dunne Cameron Hosking 27 December 1943 Bowmore, Isle of Islay, Scotland |
| Awards | OBE |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Glasgow University, London University, Birmingham University, Nottingham Trent University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | WAVE Trust (founder) |
| Main interests | Economist,accountant,psychologist,and clinical criminologist |
| Notable works | The strategic management of costs (1993);Violence and what to do about it (2005,with Ita Walsh);International experience of early intervention for children,young people and their families (2010,with Ita Walsh);Conception to age 2 - the age of opportunity (2013,with Sally Burlington and Ita Walsh) |
| Notable ideas | to solve deep-seated problems you must first understand the root causes,then tackle those root causes |
George Dunne Cameron Hosking OBE (born 27 December 1943 in Bowmore,in the Hebridean island of Islay) [1] is a British Quaker,economist,accountant,psychologist,and clinical criminologist [1] who founded WAVE Trust in 1996. [2]
He graduated with an Honours M.A. degree in Political Economy with Economic History from Glasgow University in 1966; [3] qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant in 1969 (later becoming a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants,FCMA);graduated with a First Class Honours B.Sc. degree in psychology from Birkbeck College,London University,in 1983;with a PG Diploma in Clinical Criminology from Birmingham University in 1998;and with an Advanced PG Diploma in the Management of Psychological Trauma from Nottingham Trent University in 2000.