List of University of Essex people
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The following is a list of notable University of Essex
people (in alphabetical order).
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University of Essex
The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...
people (in alphabetical order).
Vice Chancellors
- Sir Albert Sloman (1963–1987)
- Professor Martin HarrisMartin Harris (academic)Professor Sir Martin Best Harris CBE , MA PhD LLD is a British academic and Professor of Linguistics.He was born at Ruabon, Wales, the son of William Best Harris, afterwards City Librarian of Plymouth, and educated at Devonport High School for Boys in Plymouth, and at Queens' College, Cambridge...
(1987–1993) - Professor Ron J. JohnstonRon J. JohnstonRonald John Johnston, OBE, AcSS, FBA is a British human geographer, noted for elaborating his discipline's foundations, particularly its history and nature, and for his contributions to urban social geography and electoral geography...
(1993–1995) - Sir Ivor CreweIvor CreweSir Ivor Martin Crewe is the Master of University College, Oxford. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of Essex and Professor in the Department of Government....
(1995–2007) - Professor Colin Riordan (2007–present)
Business & Economics
- George Christopher ArchibaldGeorge Christopher ArchibaldGeorge Christopher Archibald , also known as Chris Archibald, was a British economist, a researcher and professor. He played a significant role in building the new University of Essex into a premier UK research centre for the social sciences in the 1960s.Archibald was born in Scotland the first...
- Professor, Economics Department (1964–1971) - Anthony Barnes AtkinsonAnthony Barnes AtkinsonSir Anthony Barnes "Tony" Atkinson, FBA, is a British economist and has been a Senior Research Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford since 2005.-Career:Atkinson served as Warden of Nuffield College from 1994 to 2005...
- 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 BergstromAlbert Rex BergstromAlbert Rex Bergstrom was a distinguished New Zealand econometrician recognised for his work in continuous time econometrics. He was born on 9 July 1925 in Christchurch where he attended Christchurch School for Boys. He studied at Christchurch University College part-time from 1942 to 1947 while...
- 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 EconometricsJournal of EconometricsThe Journal of Econometrics is a leading scholarly journal in econometrics. It was first published in 1973. Its current editors are A.R. Gallant, J.F. Geweke, C. Hsiao, and P.M...
- Melvyn Coles - Professor
- Alec Chrystal - Lecturer (1976–1984)
- Graciela ChichilniskyGraciela ChichilniskyGraciela Chichilnisky is an Argentine American mathematical economist and an expert on climate change. She is a professor of economics at Columbia University....
- Chair in Economics (1980 to 1981), now at Columbia University - Jeff Frank - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader(1981–1994)
- Andrea Galeotti - Professor
- Sanjeev GoyalSanjeev GoyalSanjeev Goyal is an Indian economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.He is a pioneer of the economics of networks and one of the leading scholars in the field....
- 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 LaidlerDavid LaidlerDavid Ernest William Laidler has been one of the foremost scholars of monetarism. He published major economics journal articles on the topic in the late 1960s and early 1970s...
- Lecturer (1966–1969), now Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario - Richard LipseyRichard LipseyRichard George Lipsey, OC, FRSC is a Canadian academic and economist. He is best known for his work on the economics of the second-best, a theory of constrained optimization by government of the tax system, which he co-authored with Kelvin Lancaster, a mathematical economist of high...
- Head Professor of Economics (1963–1969) - Sheri MarkoseSheri MarkoseSheri Markose is a professor in economics at the University of Essex, where she holds a personal chair since 2006, and is the founding director of the Centre for Computational Finance and Economic Agents at Essex...
- Professor of Economics - Michio MorishimaMichio Morishimawas a Japanese economist, mathematician and econometrician, who was a faculty member at the London School of Economics from 1970-88 as the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics...
- 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
- Francesco Squintani - Professor of Economics (2007-2011), now at the University of Warwick
- Anthony VenablesAnthony VenablesAnthony J. Venables, CBE, born April 25, 1953, is a British economist and the BP Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford.Venables is known as one of the pioneers of New Economic Geography...
- Lecturer in Economics (1978 to 1979), now at the University of Oxford
Sciences
- George Alfred BarnardGeorge Alfred BarnardGeorge Alfred Barnard was a British statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control.-Biography:...
- Professor of Mathematics (1966 to 1975) - Mohammed GhanbariMohammed GhanbariMohammed Ghanbari is a professor in the Department of Electronic Systems Engineering focused in the areas of Video Networking at the University of Essex....
- Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (1996 - ) - Owen HollandOwen HollandOwen Holland is currently a professor of cognitive robotics in the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at the University of Sussex. He was until recently a professor of computer science at the University of Essex, England...
- Professor of Computer Science - Edward TsangEdward TsangEdward Tsang is a Computer Science professor at the University of Essex. He holds a first degree in Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong , and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex...
- Professor of Computer Science - Martin HensonMartin HensonProfessor Martin C. Henson FBCS FRSA is an English computer scientist based at the University of Essex. He is Dean of International Development and is affiliated to the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering....
- Professor of Computer Science
Humanities
- Dawn Ades - Professor, Art History and Theory Department
- Robert D. BorsleyRobert D. BorsleyRobert D. Borsley is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Essex, UK.He studied at the University College of North Wales and the University of Edinburgh, where he did his Ph.D...
- Professor of Linguistics (2000 - ) - Peter CarruthersPeter Carruthers (philosopher)Peter Carruthers is a philosopher in the area of philosophy of mind. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, associate member of and member of the -Background:...
Lecturer, Philosophy Department (1985–1991) - Donald DavieDonald DavieDonald Alfred Davie was an English Movement poet, and literary critic. His poems in general are philosophical and abstract, but often evoke various landscapes.-Biography:...
- Professor of Literature (1964–1968) - Peter DewsPeter DewsPeter Kenneth Dews is a British philosopher, in the fields of critical theory and continental philosophy. He made his name with the Logics of Disintegration, on the limitations of post-structuralism. He is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Essex.His first degree was in English, at...
Professor of Philosophy (1988 - ) - Elaine FeinsteinElaine FeinsteinElaine Feinstein is a poet, novelist, short-story writer, playwright, biographer and translator.-Biography:...
- Assistant Lecturer, English Literature (1967–1970) - Wyn Johnson - Lecturer, Linguistics Department (1985 -)
- David MusselwhiteDavid MusselwhiteDavid Musselwhite was a British literary critic and academic.He was born in Wales and studied first at Cambridge University, then later at the University of Essex, where he subsequently became a Senior Lecturer...
- Senior Lecturer, English Literature (1974–2010) - Michael PodroMichael PodroMichael Podro CBE, FBA was a British art historian. Podro, the son of Jewish refugees from central Europe, was born in and grew up in Hendon, Middlesex. He attended Berkhamsted school in Hertfordshire, served in the RAF, and read English at Jesus College, Cambridge and philosophy at University...
- Professor of Art History (1973 to 1997) - Mark SacksMark SacksMark D. Sacks was a British philosopher in the fields of Kant, Post-Kantian idealism, and the epistemological tradition in European Philosophy. He was one of the few philosophers who sought the way to unite Analytic philosophy with Continental philosophy.He founded the European Journal of...
- Professor of Philosophy (1993–2008) - José Emilio PachecoJosé Emilio PachecoJosé Emilio Pacheco Berny is a Mexican essayist, novelist and short story writer. He is regarded as one of the major Mexican poets of the second half of the 20th century....
Visiting Professor of Literature
Social Sciences
- Jean BlondelJean BlondelJean Blondel is a French political scientist specialising in comparative politics. He is currently Emeritus Professor at the European University Institute in Florence, and visiting professor at the University of Siena....
- Professor of Politics (1964 to 1984) - Kevin BoyleKevin Boyle (political activist)Christopher Kevin Boyle was a Northern Ireland-born human rights activist, barrister and educator.Born and brought up in Newry, he was a lecturer in law at Queen's University Belfast. He took part in the 1969 People’s Democracy march from Belfast to Derry which was attacked by loyalists at...
- Former Director, Human Rights Centre (3 terms) - Hugh BroganHugh BroganDenis Hugh Vercingetorix Brogan , known as Hugh Brogan, is a British historian and biographer.-Early life:The son of Sir Denis Brogan, he was educated at St Faith's School, Cambridge, Repton School, and St John's College, Cambridge, graduating BA in 1959 and MA in 1964...
- Professor of History, (1974 to 1998) - Ian CraibIan CraibIan Craib was an English sociologist and psychotherapist.He was educated at Trinity School of John Whitgift, and the South Bank Polytechnic, eventually receiving his doctorate at the Victoria University of Manchester. He went on to join the University of Essex in 1973, eventually rising to the...
- Professor of Sociology (1973–2003) - Vic GatrellVic GatrellVic Gatrell is a Life Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and a member of the Cambridge history faculty. Born in South Africa, he went to Rhodes University before taking honours in history and completing his Ph.D. in Cambridge...
- Professor of British History (2003 - ) - Paul Hunt - Former Director, Human Rights Centre (2001 to 2003)
- Bob JessopBob JessopBob Jessop is a British academic and writer who has published extensively on state theory and political economy. He is currently Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster.-Work:...
- Professor, Department of Government (1975 to 1989) - Anthony KingAnthony King (professor)Professor Anthony King is a Canadian-born professor of government in the United Kingdom at Essex University, psephologist and commentator....
- Professor, Department of Government - Emil Kirchner - Professor, Department of Government
- Alan KnightAlan Knight (historian)Alan Knight is Professor of History of Latin America academy at the University of Oxford, England, where he is a Fellow at St. Antony's College and Director of the Latin American Centre...
- Lecturer, History Department (1973 to 1985) - Ernesto LaclauErnesto LaclauErnesto Laclau is an Argentine political theorist often described as post-Marxist.He studied History in Buenos Aires, graduating from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in 1964, and received a PhD from Essex University in 1977.Since the 1970s he has been Professor of Political Theory at the...
- Visiting Professor, Department of Government - Geoffrey Martin - Professor, Department of History
- Harvey MolotchHarvey MolotchHarvey Luskin Molotch is a U.S. sociologist and a sociology professor at NYU known for studies that have reconceptualized power relations in interaction, the mass media, and the city. He helped create the field of environmental sociology and has advanced qualitative methods in the social sciences...
- Professor of Sociology - Nigel S. RodleyNigel S. RodleySir Nigel Simon Rodley KBE is an international human rights lawyer and professor.-Current positions:Rodley is:*a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, a body of 18 human rights experts that monitors UN member states' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and*a...
- Current Head, Human Rights Centre (also a graduate: see below) - David Sanders - Former Head, Department of Government
- Fatos TarifaFatos TarifaDr. Fatos Tarifa is a social scientist and a former diplomat from Albania. He served as Albanian ambassador to the Netherlands and to the United States . Currently he is Director of the European University of Tirana Institute of Social and Policy Studies...
- Guest Lecturer
Academia Economics
- Cliff Attfield - Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of BristolUniversity of BristolThe University of Bristol is a public research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.The University is...
, Fellow of the Royal Statistical SocietyRoyal Statistical SocietyThe Royal Statistical Society is a learned society for statistics and a professional body for statisticians in the UK.-History:It was founded in 1834 as the Statistical Society of London , though a perhaps unrelated London Statistical Society was in existence at least as early as 1824...
; Fellow of the Journal of EconometricsJournal of EconometricsThe Journal of Econometrics is a leading scholarly journal in econometrics. It was first published in 1973. Its current editors are A.R. Gallant, J.F. Geweke, C. Hsiao, and P.M... - Erkin BairamErkin BairamErkin Bairam was a Cypriot-born economist who spent most of his working life in the Department of Economics at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where he was Professor in Economics....
- Professor of Economics, University of OtagoUniversity of OtagoThe University of Otago in Dunedin is New Zealand's oldest university with over 22,000 students enrolled during 2010.The university has New Zealand's highest average research quality and in New Zealand is second only to the University of Auckland in the number of A rated academic researchers it...
(1991–2001) - Yin-Wong Cheung - Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Robert L. Crouch - Active Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa BarbaraUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraThe University of California, Santa Barbara, commonly known as UCSB or UC Santa Barbara, is a public research university and one of the 10 general campuses of the University of California system. The main campus is located on a site in Goleta, California, from Santa Barbara and northwest of Los...
- Panicos O. DemetriadesPanicos O. DemetriadesPanicos Onisiphorou Demetriades is a : Greek Cypriot :economist and Professor of Financial Economics at the :University of Leicester....
- Professor of Financial Economics, University of Leicester - Jean DrèzeJean DrèzeJean Drèze is a development economist who has been influential in Indian economic policymaking. He is a naturalized Indian of Belgian origin. His work in India include issues like hunger, famine, gender inequality, child health and education, and the NREGA...
- Professor of Economics, Delhi School of EconomicsDelhi School of EconomicsDelhi School of Economics , commonly referred to as DSE or D School, is a centre of post graduate learning of the University of Delhi. The centre is situated in the university's North Campus in Maurice Nagar, and is surrounded by a host of other prestigious academic institutions of the country... - Paul Grout - Professor of Political Economy, University of BristolUniversity of BristolThe University of Bristol is a public research university located in Bristol, United Kingdom. One of the so-called "red brick" universities, it received its Royal Charter in 1909, although its predecessor institution, University College, Bristol, had been in existence since 1876.The University is...
- Alan Harrison - incoming Provost, Queens' University
- Colm KearneyColm KearneyProfessor Colm Kearney is a professor of international business at Trinity College, Dublin.-Background:Born and raised in North County Dublin, Kearney attended University College Dublin , where he graduated with a BA in Economics and Politics. Kearney went on to complete Masters degrees in...
- Professor of International Business, University College Dublin - Graham Loomes - Professor of Economics, University of WarwickUniversity of WarwickThe University of Warwick is a public research university located in Coventry, United Kingdom...
- Jack Mintz - Palmer Chair in Public Policy, School of Policy Studies, University of Calgary
- Christopher A. PissaridesChristopher A. PissaridesChristopher Antoniou Pissarides F.B.A. is a Cypriot economist. He currently holds the Norman Sosnow Chair in Economics at the London School of Economics. His research interests focus on several topics of macroeconomics, notably labor, economic growth, and economic policy. In 2010, he was awarded...
- Nobel Laureate 2010 British-Cypriot Economists, Professor of Economics at the London School of EconomicsLondon School of EconomicsThe London School of Economics and Political Science is a public research university specialised in the social sciences located in London, United Kingdom, and a constituent college of the federal University of London... - 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 UniversityMacquarie UniversityMacquarie University is an Australian public teaching and research university located in Sydney, with its main campus situated in Macquarie Park. Founded in 1964 by the New South Wales Government, it was the third university to be established in the metropolitan area of Sydney...
- Richard J. Smith - Professor of Econometric Theory and Economic Statistics, University of CambridgeUniversity of CambridgeThe University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
- John Whalley - William G. Davis Professor of International Trade at University of Western OntarioUniversity of Western OntarioThe University of Western Ontario is a public research university located in London, Ontario, Canada. The university's main campus covers of land, with the Thames River cutting through the eastern portion of the main campus. Western administers its programs through 12 different faculties and...
- Sam Wilson - Professor of Economics, University of Alberta
Academia Others
- Martin J. BallMartin J. BallMartin J. Ball is Hawthorne-BORSF Endowed Professor and Director of the Doris B Hawthorne Center for Special Education and Communicative Disorders in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette....
- Professor of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at LafayetteUniversity of Louisiana at LafayetteThe University of Louisiana at Lafayette, or UL Lafayette, is a coeducational, public research university located in Lafayette, Louisiana, in the heart of Acadiana... - Andrew Bennett - Principal, Saint Joseph's Institution International (Singapore)
- Richard BarbrookRichard BarbrookRichard Barbrook is an academic in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Languages at the University of Westminster.-Education:Barbrook studied for a BA in Social & Political Science at Downing College, University of Cambridge, a MA in Political Behaviour at University of Essex and a...
- Senior Lecturer in Humanities & Social Science, University of WestminsterUniversity of WestminsterThe University of Westminster is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom. Its origins go back to the foundation of the Royal Polytechnic Institution in 1838, and it was awarded university status in 1992.The university's headquarters and original campus are based on Regent... - John BarrellJohn BarrellJohn Barrell FBA, FEA is a British scholar of eighteenth and early nineteenth century studies and is currently Professor of English at the University of York. He took his first degree at Trinity College Cambridge, and his PhD at the University of Essex. He was a lecturer in the Department of...
- Professor of English, University of YorkUniversity of YorkThe University of York , is an academic institution located in the city of York, England. Established in 1963, the campus university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects... - David M. BarrettDavid M. BarrettDavid M. Barrett is a professor of political science at Villanova University and author of "The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy" , Lyndon B. Johnson's Vietnam Papers , and Uncertain Warriors: Lyndon Johnson and His Vietnam Advisers . A former radio and television...
- Professor of Political Science, Villanova UniversityVillanova UniversityVillanova University is a private university located in Radnor Township, a suburb northwest of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States... - Anthony Cohn - Professor of Automated Reasoning, University of LeedsUniversity of LeedsThe University of Leeds is a British Redbrick university located in the city of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England...
- Kusuma KarunaratneKusuma KarunaratneKusuma Karunaratne nee Ediriweera Jayasooriya is a Sri Lankan academic, university administrator, Professor and scholar of Sinhalese language and literature.-Personal life:...
- Sri Lankan academic, university administrator, Professor and scholar in the fields of Sinhalese Language, Comparative Literature, and Sociology, University of ColomboUniversity of ColomboThe University of Colombo is a public research university located primarily in Colombo, Sri Lanka... - Alberto Pérez-GómezAlberto Pérez-GómezAlberto Pérez-Gómez is an architectural historian and is also known as a theorist and a promoter of phenomenology. Born December 24, 1949 in Mexico City, Mexico, he graduated as an engineer and architect from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico and pursued graduate studies in the history...
- Professor of Architectural History, McGill UniversityMcGill UniversityMohammed Fathy is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The university bears the name of James McGill, a prominent Montreal merchant from Glasgow, Scotland, whose bequest formed the beginning of the university... - James GomezJames GomezDr. James Gomez is an academic from Singapore and he manages an online consultancy – The GOMEZ Centre. A prominent public intellectual in the country, he is currently the Executive Director of Singaporeans for Democracy and a member of the Singapore Democratic Party .-Biography:Gomez was born in...
- Professor of Public Relations, Monash UniversityMonash UniversityMonash University is a public university based in Melbourne, Victoria. It was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. Monash is a member of Australia's Group of Eight and the ASAIHL....
& researcher in Media and Politics in South-East Asia - Stephen F. JonesStephen F. JonesStephen F. Jones is an American expert on post-Communist societies in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe who currently serves as a Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts....
- Academic in the field of Eastern European Affairs - Ladislav Kohout - Professor of Computer Science, Florida State University
- Ernesto LaclauErnesto LaclauErnesto Laclau is an Argentine political theorist often described as post-Marxist.He studied History in Buenos Aires, graduating from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires in 1964, and received a PhD from Essex University in 1977.Since the 1970s he has been Professor of Political Theory at the...
- Post-Marxist political theorist at Northwestern UniversityNorthwestern UniversityNorthwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
, also Visiting Professor at Essex's Department of Government - Jill MarsdenJill MarsdenJill Marsden is a scholar of the work of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. Marsden, from Nottingham, took her BA, MA and PhD from the University of Essex. Her doctoral thesis explored Nietzsche's Doctrine of Eternal Return....
- scholar of the work of German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche and lecturer at the University of BoltonUniversity of BoltonThe University of Bolton is a university in Bolton, Greater Manchester, England. It has around 14,000 students across all sites and courses, with 700 academic and professional staff. Around 70% of its students come from Bolton and the North West region... - Peter Matanle - Academic Sociologist & Lecturer, University of SheffieldUniversity of SheffieldThe University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...
- Jack Mintz - Palmer Chair in Public Policy, School of Policy Studies, University of CalgaryUniversity of CalgaryThe University of Calgary is a public research university located in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Founded in 1966 the U of C is composed of 14 faculties and more than 85 research institutes and centres.More than 25,000 undergraduate and 5,500 graduate students are currently...
- Maxine MolyneuxMaxine MolyneuxMaxine Molyneux is a sociologist whose work focuses on the women's movement.That women's interests and gender interests are different categories is the discovery for which Maxine Molyneux is most frequently cited. Her focus is women's movements and her central question is how they and the state...
- Professor of Sociology, Institute of Latin American StudiesInstitute of Latin American StudiesThe Institute of Latin American Studies was set up in 1965 at the University of London, with the objective of providing postgraduate level teaching and a focus for research on the literature, history, politics and economics of Latin America and the Caribbean.In August 2004 the ILAS merged with the...
, University of London - Farish Ahmad NoorFarish A. NoorDr. Farish Ahmad Noor is a Malaysian political scientist and historian and is presently a Senior Fellow at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore...
, Senior Fellow, Nanyang Technological UniversityNanyang Technological UniversityNanyang Technological University is one of the two largest public universities in Singapore with the biggest campus in Singapore and the world's largest engineering college. Its lush 200-hectare Yunnan Garden campus was the Youth Olympic Village of the world's first 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in...
, Singapore - Nigel S. RodleyNigel S. RodleySir Nigel Simon Rodley KBE is an international human rights lawyer and professor.-Current positions:Rodley is:*a member of the UN Human Rights Committee, a body of 18 human rights experts that monitors UN member states' compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and*a...
- International Human Rights Lawyer and Academic, University of EssexUniversity of EssexThe University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965... - Jörg Siekmann - Professor of Computer Science, Universität des Saarlandes
- Michael TappinMichael Tappin-Education:Tappin graduated a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Essex, he has also been educated at Strathclyde University and the London School of Economics.-Career:...
- academic associated with Keele UniversityKeele UniversityKeele University is a campus university near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. Founded in 1949 as an experimental college dedicated to a broad curriculum and interdisciplinary study, Keele is most notable for pioneering the dual honours degree in Britain... - Michael TaylorMichael Taylor (political scientist)Michael Taylor is a political theorist and political economist, who is currently a professor at the University of Washington. His research interests include rational choice theory, moral motivation and game theory....
- Professor of Politics, University of WashingtonUniversity of WashingtonUniversity of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University... - Yeap Wai Kiang - Director of the Institute for Information Technology Research at the Auckland University of TechnologyAuckland University of TechnologyThe Auckland University of Technology is a university in New Zealand. It was formed on 1 January 2000 when the Auckland Institute of Technology was granted university status. Its primary campus is on Wellesley Street in Auckland's Central business district...
. - Nathan WidderNathan WidderNathan Widder is an American-born political philosopher whose work engages with the history of Western political thought and philosophy, contemporary Continental philosophy, and feminist political theory....
- Reader in political theory, Royal Holloway, University of LondonRoyal Holloway, University of LondonRoyal Holloway, University of London is a constituent college of the University of London. The college has three faculties, 18 academic departments, and about 8,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students from over 130 different countries... - Jonathan WilsonJonathan WilsonJonathan Wilson is the name of:* Jonathan Wilson , American Psychedelic Folk musician* Jonathan Wilson, former member of the band Eisley* Jonathan Wilson , British sports journalist and author...
- Fletcher Professor of Rhetoric and Debate and Director of the Center for Humanities, Tufts UniversityTufts UniversityTufts University is a private research university located in Medford/Somerville, near Boston, Massachusetts. It is organized into ten schools, including two undergraduate programs and eight graduate divisions, on four campuses in Massachusetts and on the eastern border of France... - Wong Chin HuatWong Chin HuatWong Chin Huat is a Malaysian political scientist, an university lecturer, a political activist and a columnist.Obtaining his undergraduate degree from Universiti Malaya, he completed his Master's degree at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and is finishing his PhD on electoral system and party...
- Malaysian political scientist, activist and columnist.
Politics & Government
- Ian Austin - Labour Party Politician, MP for Dudley NorthDudley North (UK Parliament constituency)Dudley North is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.- Boundaries :...
- John BercowJohn BercowJohn Simon Bercow is a British politician who has been the Speaker of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom since June 2009. Prior to his election to Speaker he was a member of the Conservative party....
- Speaker of the House of Commons - Mark BergfeldMark BergfeldMark Bergfeld is a member of the National Executive Council of the National Union of Students , spokesperson of the Education Activist Network and is a prominent member of the Socialist Workers Party . He is one of the leaders of the UK student demonstrations of November/December 2010...
- student activist and member of the National Executive Council of the National Union of Students (NUS) - John BiehlJohn BiehlJohn Henry Biehl del Río is a Chilean lawyer, political scientist, and diplomat who served as the cabinet-level Minister Secretary-General of the Presidency for Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle's administration.- Early life :...
- Chilean lawyer, political scientist, and diplomat - Virginia BottomleyVirginia BottomleyVirginia Bottomley, Baroness Bottomley of Nettlestone, PC, DL is a British Conservative Party politician. She was a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons from 1984 to 2005. She was raised to the peerage in 2005...
- Conservative Party politician - Thozamile BothaThozamile BothaThozamile Botha is a South African politician. He started his political career as a trade unionist and was an executive member of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. Due to the apartheid government he went into exile in 1980 to Lesotho where he worked with Chris Hani...
- South African Politician - Dragiša BurzanDragiša BurzanDragiša Burzan has been the Serbia and Montenegro ambassador to London since 2004. Before his diplomatic appointment, he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro between 2003 and 2004.Burzan attended school in Titograd, then part of Yugoslavia...
- Serbian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Former Foreign Minister of Montenegro - Fátima ChoiFátima ChoiFátima Choi aliás Choi Mei Lei MSc, BSc was a Commissioner of Audit in Macau.Born in Macao. Choi obtained a Master of Science degree in statistics and Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Essex....
- Director of Audit, Macau SAR, China - Sean FarrenSean FarrenSean Nial Farren is an Northern Irish politician.Farren studied at the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin, University of Essex and the University of Ulster...
- former Northern Irish Politician - Duncan Shipley-DaltonDuncan Shipley-DaltonDuncan Shipley-Dalton is a former Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.Born in Newport, Isle of Wight, Shipley-Dalton attended the University of Essex and Queen's University Belfast before becoming a barrister. From 1994-98, he served in the Royal Irish Regiment.- Biography :Shipley-Dalton was...
- former Northern Irish Politician - James Duddridge - Conservative Party Politician, MP for Rochford and Southend EastRochford and Southend EastRochford and Southend East is a county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election.-Boundaries:...
- Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market RasenAnne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market RasenAnne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen is a British trade unionist and author of several pamphlets about industrial laws....
- British Trade Unionist - Reshef HenReshef HenReshef Ari Hen is a former Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Shinui and the Secular Faction between 2003 and 2006.-Biography:...
- former member of the Knesset. - Peter HousdenPeter HousdenSir Peter James Housden KCB is Permanent Secretary of the Scottish Government since July 2010. He was previously Permanent Secretary of the Department for Communities and Local Government....
- Permanent Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government - Omar Asghar KhanOmar Asghar KhanOmar Asghar Khan was a Pakistani economist, social, political scientist. A professor of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Quaid-i-Azam University, he was the founder of Qaumi Jamhoori Party ....
- PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
i social activist, economist and politician - Leung Yiu ChungLeung Yiu ChungLeung Yiu Chung . He is a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong since 1995, except for a period between 1997 and 1998. Since 1998 he represents the...
- Member of the Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council - Edward LordEdward LordCharles Edward Lord OBE JP politician and a leading figure in English local government. He is Chairman of Local Partnerships LLP and its subsidiary, the Public Private Partnerships Programme , and an ex-officio member of the Executive and Improvement Board of the Local Government Association...
- Liberal Democract politician and a leading figure in English local government - Siobhain McDonaghSiobhain McDonaghSiobhain Ann McDonagh is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament for Mitcham and Morden since 1997. She previously served as an Assistant Whip in the Labour Government, but was fired following comments regarding a leadership contest to replace PM Gordon Brown.She...
- Labour Party politician - Priti PatelPriti PatelPriti Patel is a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom. First elected in the 2010 general election, she is the Member of Parliament for the Witham constituency, and an officer of the Conservative Friends of Israel group....
- Conservative Party politician - Donald C. PogueDonald C. PogueDonald C. Pogue is currently the Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade and serves as Chair of the Court's Long Range Planning Committee and Budget Committee...
- 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 RupelDimitrij RupelDimitrij Rupel is a Slovenian politician.- Biography :Rupel was born in Ljubljana, in what was then the Socialist Republic of Slovenia, into a bourgeois family of former anti-fascist political emigrants from the Julian March .After receiving a bachelor's degree in comparative literature and...
- first Foreign Minister of Republic of Slovenia - Oscar Arias Sanchez - President of Costa RicaCosta RicaCosta Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
and 1987 Nobel Peace PrizeNobel Peace PrizeThe Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.-Background:According to Nobel's will, the Peace Prize shall be awarded to the person who...
Winner - Muhammad Ali Saif - Former Pakistani Minister of Tourism
- David Triesman, Baron TriesmanDavid Triesman, Baron TriesmanDavid Maxim Triesman, Baron Triesman is a former Chairman of the Football Association, a British politician, a Labour member of the House of Lords and previously a minister at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills....
- Labour Party Member in the House of LordsHouse of LordsThe House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
, Chairman of the English Football Association - Dr Kevin Roberto Casas Zamora - Former Vice-President of Costa Rica (2004–2007)
- Hoshyar ZebariHoshyar ZebariHoshyar Zebari is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iraq. A Kurd originally from Aqrah, a city in Iraqi Kurdistan, Zebari holds a masters degree in sociology from the University of Essex, England and studied political science in Jordan...
- Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs
Business & Economics
- Richard DouthwaiteRichard DouthwaiteRichard Douthwaite was a British economist, ecologist, campaigner and writer living in Ireland. He died of cancer at his home in Cloona, near Westport, Co. Mayo....
- Economist, co-founder of FeastaFeastaFeasta is an Irish-language magazine that was established in 1948. Its purpose is the furtherance of the aims of the Gaelic League, an objective reflecting the cultural nationalism of the language movement, and the promotion of new writing... - Mar GuðmundssonMar GuðmundssonMár Guðmundsson is an Icelandic economist and policy maker. Since July 2009, he is the Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland.-Career:...
- Governor of the Central Bank of Iceland - Mr. Il Houng Lee - IMF Senior Resident Representative (China) (MA in Economics)
- Thorarinn G. PeturssonThorarinn G. PeturssonThorarinn G. Petursson , is an Icelandic economist. Since September 15, 2009, he is the Chief Economist of the Central Bank of Iceland.-Education:...
- Chief Economist of the Central Bank of Iceland - George ProvopoulosGeorge ProvopoulosGeorge Provopoulos is the current Governor of the Bank of Greece, and European Central Bank Governing Council member...
- Governor of the Bank of GreeceBank of GreeceThe Bank of Greece is the nationalcentral bank of Greece, located in Athens on Panepistimiou Street, with several branches across the country. Founded in 1927...
& European Central BankEuropean Central BankThe European Central Bank is the institution of the European Union that administers the monetary policy of the 17 EU Eurozone member states. It is thus one of the world's most important central banks. The bank was established by the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1998, and is headquartered in Frankfurt,...
Governing Council Member. - Charles MbireCharles MbireCharles Mbire is a businessman, entrepreneur and industrialist in Uganda. He is reported to be the wealthiest indigenous Ugandan, with an estimated net worth in excess of US$65 million, as of December 2008.-Background:...
- Ugandan businessman, entrepreneur and industrialist - Yusli Mohamed Yusoff - CEO of Bursa MalaysiaBursa MalaysiaBursa Malaysia is an exchange holding company approved under Section 15 of the Capital Markets and Services Act 2007. It operates a fully integrated exchange, offering the complete range of exchange-related services including trading, clearing, settlement and depository services.- History :Bursa...
(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 DaldryStephen DaldryStephen David Daldry, CBE is an English theatre and film director and producer, as well as a three-time Academy Award nominated and Tony Award winning director.-Early years:...
- Film & Theatre Director (East 15 Acting SchoolEast 15 Acting SchoolEast 15 is a British drama school in Debden, Loughton, Essex. At the main campus, Loughton, it occupies an 18th century mansion, Hatfields, and has its own theatre, the Corbett, which is adjacent. The Corbett Theatre is an adaptation of a 15th-century barn...
), BAFTABritish Academy of Film and Television ArtsThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...
award-winner - Nick BroomfieldNick BroomfieldNicholas "Nick" Broomfield is an English documentary film-maker. He is the son of Maurice Broomfield, a photographer.Broomfield works with a minimal crew, recording sound himself and using one or two camera operators...
- Documentary film maker - Mike LeighMike LeighMichael "Mike" Leigh, OBE is a British writer and director of film and theatre. He studied theatre at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and studied further at the Camberwell School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design. He began as a theatre director and playwright in the mid 1960s...
- Film & Theatre Director (East 15 Acting SchoolEast 15 Acting SchoolEast 15 is a British drama school in Debden, Loughton, Essex. At the main campus, Loughton, it occupies an 18th century mansion, Hatfields, and has its own theatre, the Corbett, which is adjacent. The Corbett Theatre is an adaptation of a 15th-century barn...
) - Alison SteadmanAlison SteadmanAlison Steadman OBE is an English actress. She established her career with roles such as Beverley in Abigail's Party and Candice Marie in Nuts in May for the director Mike Leigh, to whom she was once married. In addition to her stage and radio work, she has had lead roles in The Singing Detective,...
- Actress (East 15 Acting SchoolEast 15 Acting SchoolEast 15 is a British drama school in Debden, Loughton, Essex. At the main campus, Loughton, it occupies an 18th century mansion, Hatfields, and has its own theatre, the Corbett, which is adjacent. The Corbett Theatre is an adaptation of a 15th-century barn...
), twice-nominated for BAFTABritish Academy of Film and Television ArtsThe British Academy of Film and Television Arts is a charity in the United Kingdom that hosts annual awards shows for excellence in film, television, television craft, video games and forms of animation.-Introduction:...
award - David YatesDavid YatesDavid Yates is an English filmmaker who rose to mainstream prominence directing the final four films in the Harry Potter film series. He helmed the series' fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth installments, all of which became an instant blockbuster success and made him the most commercially...
- multi-BAFTA winning English film and television director
Law and Order
- Peter JoslinPeter JoslinPeter Joslin, QPM, DL. , is a former British police officer and Deputy Lieutenant of Warwickshire. He served as Chief Constable of Warwickshire Police, where he held the position for fifteen years from 1983 to 1998, becoming the county's longest serving police chief...
- Chief Constable of WarwickshireWarwickshireWarwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare... - Michael J. ToddMichael J. ToddMichael J. Todd QPM , was Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police from 2002 until his death.-Biography:...
- Chief ConstableChief ConstableChief constable is the rank used by the chief police officer of every territorial police force in the United Kingdom except for the City of London Police and the Metropolitan Police, as well as the chief officers of the three 'special' national police forces, the British Transport Police, Ministry...
of Greater ManchesterGreater ManchesterGreater Manchester is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 2.6 million. It encompasses one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United Kingdom and comprises ten metropolitan boroughs: Bolton, Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan, and the...
from 2002 till 2008
Media and Journalism
- Dotun AdebayoDotun AdebayoOludotun Adebayo MBE is a Nigerian-born, British-based radio presenter, writer and publisher. He is best known for his work on Up All Night on BBC Radio 5 Live, as well as the obituary programme Brief Lives.- Early life :...
- Radio Presenter on BBC FiveLive - Brian HanrahanBrian HanrahanBrian Hanrahan was the Diplomatic Editor for BBC News and a well known correspondent. He also presented The World at One on BBC Radio Four and appeared on regular cover shifts on the rolling news channel BBC News 24...
- BBCBBCThe British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
foreign correspondentForeign correspondentForeign Correspondent may refer to:*Foreign correspondent *Foreign Correspondent , an Alfred Hitchcock film*Foreign Correspondent , an Australian current affairs programme... - Isobel LangIsobel LangIsobel Dinah Lang is a weather presenter for Sky News.-Early life:Lang grew up in Sussex and Hertfordshire. She graduated with a BSc degree in mathematics in 1991 from the University of Exeter, before joining the Met Office in 1991 where she prepared forecasts for the press, and presented the...
- Meteorological Office weather forecaster (BBC, Sky) and TV presenter - Nick MargerrisonNick MargerrisonNick Margerrison is a radio presenter who presents the weekend overnight show on LBC 97.3.-Early career:Nick Margerrison went to the University of Essex where he studied English Literature...
- Radio Presenter on Kerrang!Radio
Musicians
- Clint BoonClint BoonClint Boon is an English musician and DJ. Boon originally rose to notability as the keyboards player with Inspiral Carpets.-Career:...
- Keyboardist and lead singer of the Inspiral CarpetsInspiral CarpetsInspiral Carpets are an alternative rock band from Oldham in Greater Manchester, England formed by Graham Lambert and Stephen Holt in 1983. The band is named after a clothing shop on their Oldham estate... - Steve Chandra SavaleSteve Chandra SavaleSteve Chandra Savale originally from London, United Kingdom, also known by his stage names Chandrasonic and Chandra Blunt, is a British musician of Asian descent, best known as the lead guitarist of the British electronica band Asian Dub Foundation...
- Asian Dub FoundationAsian Dub FoundationAsian Dub Foundation are a British electronica band that plays a mix of rapcore, dub, dancehall and ragga, also using rock instruments, acknowledging a punk influence...
guitarist - Gilad AtzmonGilad AtzmonGilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist, novelist, political activist and writer.Atzmon's album Exile was BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. Playing over 100 dates a year, he has been called "surely the hardest-gigging man in British jazz." His albums, of which he has recorded...
- Israeli-born British jazz saxophonist
Architecture & Urban Planning
- Daniel LibeskindDaniel LibeskindDaniel Libeskind, is an American architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect...
- architect to build the Freedom TowerFreedom TowerOne World Trade Center , more simply known as 1 WTC and formerly known as the Freedom Tower, is the lead building of the new World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan in New York City...
and Memory FoundationsMemory FoundationsMemory Foundations is the name given by Daniel Libeskind to his site plan for the World Trade Center, which was selected by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation to be the master plan for rebuilding at the World Trade Center site in New York City....
on the site of the World Trade CenterWorld Trade CenterThe original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new...
in New York CityNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
Philosophy
- Simon CritchleySimon CritchleySimon Critchley is an English philosopher currently teaching at The New School. He works in continental philosophy. Critchley argues that philosophy commences in disappointment, either religious or political...
- British Philosopher, Academic at the New School for Social Research - William McNeillWilliam McNeill (philosopher)- Career and work :McNeill was educated at the University of Essex, and he is now teaching Heidegger at DePaul University. He is a translator of the work of Martin Heidegger, about whom he has written two books. The Glance of the Eye closely examines the relation between Heidegger's thought and...
- British Philosopher, Academic at DePaul University
Literary Figures and Artists
- Charlie ConnellyCharlie ConnellyCharlie Connelly is an author and broadcaster. Connelly began his career as a writer of books relating to sporting events, most commonly football. His breakthrough 2002 book, Stamping Grounds, was his fifth, and followed the Liechtenstein national football team in their unsuccessful campaign to...
- Author and Broadcaster - Nick DearNick DearNick Dear is a writer for stage, screen and radio. He received a BAFTA for his first screenwriting credit, a TV adaptation of Jane Austen's Persuasion....
- writer for stage, screen and radio - Claudia Jenner - Peruvian Linguist
- Kee Thuan ChyeKee Thuan ChyeKee Thuan Chye is a prominent Malaysian actor, dramatist, poet and journalist. Acting in theatre, films, and on television for more than 30 years, he continues to do so. In 1981, Kee co-founded the theatre group, KAMI, in Kuala Lumpur...
- Malaysian dramatist, poet and journalist - Fraser HarrisonFraser HarrisonFraser Harrison is an English writer. In 2001 he took an MA in Human Rights at Essex University and has since practised as a caseworker advising on immigration law.He is married with two adult children and lives in Walsham le Willows, Suffolk....
- English Writer - M. Murat İldan - Turkish Playwright
- Nigel JenkinsNigel JenkinsNigel Jenkins is one of Wales's foremost poets. Jenkins is also an editor, journalist, broadcaster and writer of creative non-fiction...
- Renowned Welsh Poet & Writer - Marianne MajerusMarianne MajerusMarianne Majerus, born 1956 in Clervaux, Luxembourg, is a garden and portrait photographer based in London. She is one of Europe's leading specialist garden photographers. After taking her international baccalaureate at the Lycée Hubert Clément she studied in England graduating in Economics and in...
- Photographer - Okello OculiOkello OculiOkello Oculi , is a Ugandan novelist, poet, and chronicler of rural African village life. Currently, he is a private political and social consultant based in Abuja, Nigeria...
- Ugandan Novelist & Poet - Ben OkriBen OkriBen Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri has become the leading figure of his generation of Nigerian writers who have largely abandoned the social and historical themes of Chinua Achebe, and brought together modernist narrative strategies and Nigerian oral and literary...
- Booker Prize Winner - Douglas OliverDouglas OliverDouglas Dunlop Oliver was a poet, novelist, editor, and educator. The author of more than a dozen works, Oliver came into poetry not as an academic but through a career in journalism, notably in Cambridge, Paris, and Coventry, before attending the University of Essex in the 1970s. He received a...
- English Contemporary Poet and Novelist - Kate RhodesKate RhodesKate Rhodes is a British poet.In 1993 she completed a Ph.D. on the work of Tennessee Williams at the University of Essex, and has worked as an English teacher in a sixth form college and as a university lecturer. In 2004 she was granted a fellowship by the Hawthornden Literary Institute. Her debut...
- British Poet - Michelene WandorMichelene WandorMichelene Dinah Wandor is an English playwright, critic, broadcaster, poet, lecturer, and musician...
- English Playwright & Poet - Nathan ZachNathan ZachNathan Zach is an Israeli poet.-Biography:Born in Berlin, Germany, to a German father and an Italian mother, Zach immigrated to what was then known as Palestine in 1936 and served in the IDF during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War....
- Israeli Poet
Science & Technology
- Richard BartleRichard BartleRichard Allan Bartle is a British writer, professor and game researcher, best known for being the co-creator of MUD1 and the author of the seminal Designing Virtual Worlds. He is one of the pioneers of the massively multiplayer online game industry.-Life and career:Bartle received a Ph.D...
- Co-creator of MUD1, the first ever MUDMUDA MUD , pronounced , is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, with the term usually referring to text-based instances of these. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat...
(Multi-User Dungeon) - Phil O'Donovan - Founder (Cambridge Silicon Radio) Developer of bluetooth technology
- Roy TrubshawRoy TrubshawRoy Trubshaw was a programmer at the University of Essex who co-authored MUD1, the first MUD, with Richard Bartle on a DEC PDP-10. Both of them now work together at Multi-User Entertainment with Trubshaw being the company’s technical director....
- Co-creator of MUD1, the first ever MUDMUDA MUD , pronounced , is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, with the term usually referring to text-based instances of these. MUDs combine elements of role-playing games, hack and slash, player versus player, interactive fiction, and online chat...
(Multi-User Dungeon) - Rodolfo Neri VelaRodolfo Neri VelaRodolfo Neri Vela is a Mexican scientist and astronaut who flow aboard a NASA Space Shuttle mission in 1985. He is the first and only Mexican, and then the second Latin-American, to have traveled to space.-Personal :...
- MexicoMexicoThe United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
's first astronaut
Human Rights
- Akram H. ChowdhuryBangladesh Rehabilitation Centre for Trauma VictimsBangladesh Rehabilitation Centre for Trauma Victims is a Bangladeshi NGO, working in the area of rehabilitation of trauma victims. It was established in 1992. BRCT began its journey by providing medical treatment, legal support, and rehabilitation to the victims on 25 February 1992 with support...
- Founder of the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Centre for Trauma Victims - Alex NeveAlex NeveRobert Alexander Neve, OC is a Canadian human rights activist and the Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada.Born in Calgary, Alberta, the son of Robert Rex Neve and Jean Elizabeth Taylor, Neve received a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1984 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1987 from...
- Secretary General of Amnesty InternationalAmnesty InternationalAmnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
Canada - Antonio Pradjasto - Deputy Director of Demos' Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Indonesia