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Conor A. Gearty FBA KC, Professor of Human Rights Law at the London School of Economics, founder member of the Matrix Chambers; J. A. G. Griffith FBA, Welsh legal scholar, Professor of Public Law at the London School of Economics, Chancellor of the University of Manchester; Joseph Grundfest, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business, Stanford ...
Born in Lincolnshire, [1] Sir Tim Besley attended Aylesbury Grammar School and then studied at Oxford University, where he gained a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) with First Class Honours from Keble College, winning the George Webb Medley Prize for best exam performance in his cohort for his second and third years.
Rain Newton-Smith is the daughter of Canadian-born Oxford philosopher William Newton-Smith (1943–2023) and his first wife Dorris Heffron. [3]Newton-Smith earned a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in economics from the London School of Economics (LSE).
Roberts read PPE at Oxford, [3] and then for an MSc in social policy research from the London School of Economics, and worked for the Social Mobility Foundation, the Royal Society of Arts, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and other places before joining the IPPR in 2015 as Senior Economist, [4] promoted to Chief Economist in 2019 and to ...
The London School of Economics and Political Science was founded in 1895 [16] by Beatrice and Sidney Webb, [17] initially funded by a bequest of £20,000 [18] [19] from the estate of Henry Hunt Hutchinson.
Philosophy, politics and economics, or politics, philosophy and economics (PPE), is an interdisciplinary undergraduate or postgraduate degree which combines study from three disciplines. The first institution to offer degrees in PPE was the University of Oxford in the 1920s.
Her sister is the London School of Economics political scientist Mary Kaldor. The family moved to Cambridge in 1950. [1] She studied at Cambridgeshire High School for Girls and then gained a first-class degree from Oxford University in philosophy, politics and economics (PPE). [1]
Phelps Brown remained at LSE until his retirement in 1968, at which time he returned to live in Oxford and spent the last 20 years of his life writing on various economic topics. [ 1 ] From 1970–72 he was President of the Royal Economic Society .