Inauguration of the Andrew Glyn Professorship, University of Massachusetts
Posted on 18 Oct 2011 around 8am
The Andrew Glyn Professorship has been created at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) to honour the life work of Andrew Glyn who taught economics at Oxford for 38 years until his untimely death in 2007. Funded by a gift from an anonymous donor and a matching fund established by the Provost at the University, the position is to be housed jointly in the Department of Economics and the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI). The Inauguration of the Andrew Glyn Professorship and Recognition of Professor Léonce Ndikumana as the first Andrew Glyn Professor of Economics will be held on Monday, 7th November 2011. Event details.
The position honours the life work of Professor Andrew Glyn who taught economics at Oxford for 38 years until his death in 2007. He was a University Lecturer in Economics and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, and served as Deputy Head of the Economics Department and Director of Undergraduate Studies.In recognition of Andrew Glyn’s enormous contribution to Economics at Oxford, a University Lecturer post associated with a tutorial fellowship was named in his honour at Corpus Christi College in 2008. He is warmly remembered for his outstanding qualities as a teacher, scholar and colleague.
Professor Léonce Ndikumana was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1996–2008. He served as Director of Operational Policies and Director of Research at the African Development Bank from 2008–2011 and Chief of Macroeconomic Analysis at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), 2006–2008. He has contributed to various areas of research and policy analysis on African countries, including the issues of external debt and capital flight, financial markets and growth, macroeconomic policies for growth and employment, and the economics of conflict and civil wars in Africa. He is co-author of Africa’s Odious Debt: How Foreign Loans and Capital Flight Bled a Continent, in addition to dozens of academic articles and book chapters on African development and Macroeconomics. He is a graduate of the University of Burundi and received his doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.