CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 2024 PRIZE WINNERS!

22 July 2024

We are proud to celebrate the outstanding achievements of our Master's students in 2023-24. We have been impressed by their hard work, dedication, and intellectual curiosity.

 

The following students have excelled in examinations, essays, and dissertations:

 

MPhil in Economics (Year 1)

  • Prize for the best overall performance in Examinations (Core papers) - Jiayue Yu, St. Anne's College

 

MPhil in Economics (Year 2)

  • George Webb Medley Prize for the best performance in the written papers (1st prize) - George Hale, St. Peter's College
  • George Webb Medley Prize for the best thesis (1st prize) - Augustus Smith, All Souls College

 

MSc in Economics

  • George Webb Medley Prize for the best overall performance - Adithya Manoj Mohan, Wolfson College
  • George Webb Medley Prize for the best overall performance (proxime accessit) - Paola Davilla, St. Anthony's College
     
  • Luca D’Agliano Prize for Best Dissertation - Adithya Manoj Mohan, Wolfson College
  • Arthur Lewis Prize for the Best Examination Essays in Development Economics - Paola Davilla, St. Anthony's College
  • Benna Ndulu Prize for the Best Examination in Quantitative Methods - Miral Shehata, Somerville College

 

 

 

 

Descriptions of the awards:

  • The George Webb Medley Fund is the principal prize fund for Economics, Politics and Philosophy in Oxford and we can count amongst the past winners of the Economics prizes many very eminent scholars.
  • The Arthur Lewis Prize is named for an economist from Saint Lucia
  • Luca D’Agliano was an MSc student at St Antony’s in the early 1980s. He tragically died in a car accident shortly before he started his DPhil. His parents established the prize fund nearly 30 years ago.