Date of Birth: 01 November 1947                                                                                                                                                                   

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Nationality: British  (US Green Card)                                          

Present Positions:                University Professor;                              Professor of Economics,
(joint appointments)            for Economics and Public Policy          School of Economics,
                                                 George Mason University                     University of St Andrews
                                                 School of Public Policy                            St Andrews
                                                 Fairfax, VA 22030,                                   Fife, KY16 9LB
                                                 USA                                                            Scotland
Contact Details:
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                  E-Mail: ahughesh@gmu.edu
                  Web: www.policy.gmu.edu/faculty/hallet/index.html
                            www.st-andrews.ac.uk/economics/staff/pages/a.hughes-hallett



Degrees:
                 1976 DPhil, University of Oxford (Nuffield College);
                 1971 MSc (Econ), London School of Economics;
                 1969 BA (Hons), First Class, University of Warwick.



Research Interests:
                 Open Economy Macroeconomics;
                 Policy Coordination and Exchange Rate Management;
                 Monetary Integration, also Monetary and Fiscal Union in Europe;
                 Federalism, Regionalism, Policy Choice and Reform;

                 Economic governance: policy models and political economy issues;
                 The Theory of Economic Policy and Institutional Design;
                 Dynamic Games and Bargaining Models;
                 Risk and Decisions under Uncertainty;
                 Commodity Markets, Commodity Policy and Strategic Trade Policy;
                 Numerical Methods in Econometrics.

Previous Employment:
                2001-2006               Professor of Economics at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA

                1989-2001               Jean Monet Professor of Economics, University of Strathclyde, UK.

                1985-1989               David Dale Professor of Economics, Newcastle University, UK.

                1977-1985               Associate Professor in Economics, Erasmus University, the Netherlands.

                1973-1977               Lecturer in Economics, Bristol University, UK.



Part Time and Visiting Positions:
                2012-2013                Associate Faculty, Kennedy School, Harvard University

                2006                           Visiting Professor, University of Frankfurt, Germany

                2005                           Bundesbank Professor at the Free University, Berlin

                2002-2004                 Professor of Economics, Cardiff University Business School

                2002-2007                 Visiting Professor at St Andrews University

                2001-2009                 Research Associate, Centre for Economic and Business Research, Copenhagen, Denmark

                1998-1999                 Senior Associate Member, St Antony's College, Oxford, UK.

                1992-1994                 Professor of Economics and Fulbright Scholar, Princeton University, USA.

                1987, 1988, 1993, and 2009      Professor of Economics, University of Rome, Italy.

Other Employment:

               1999-2007                  Subject Area Correspondent, American Mathematical Society

               1986-2001                  Panel of Selectors, Government Economic Service, London.

               1985-2009                  Research Fellow, Centre for Economic Policy Research, London.



Public Service:

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              2007- date                   Council of Economic Advisers, Government of Scotland; reappointed 2011.

              2012-2014                   Lead economist, working group (with Professors Stiglitz and Mirrlees) to create an economic policy framework and institutions for an                                                          autonomous or independent Scotland; for the referendum in 2014 (for the Scottish Government).

              2008-2009                   Special Advisor to the Calman Commission investigating Devolution of Government powers to Scotland (for the UK Government).

              2009                              Review of the research and policy performance at the Central Bank of the Netherlands since 2002 (at the request of the Board of                                                                  Governors).      

              2002, 2008, 2009-12  A series of projects with the European Central Bank to examine how to construct sustainable fiscal policy regimes                                                     2002-2007                   One of 14 academics selected to review the UK government's the case for joining the Euro; and one of 18 selected by the European                                                              Commission to review the progress and future challenges of the new European currency. This led the Council of Ministers to embrace                                                        formal debt targets in June 2012.

             1995-1998                    Consultant to the European Commission: to evaluate the best exchange rates for joining the Euro for the European Commission.                                                                  Adopted as the rates for conversion to the Euro by the European Commission in 1998.



Honours, Distinctions and Measures of Esteem:



         •  Ranked in the top 1% of economists world-wide (0.7%, or 248 out of 35146) by publications, citation and readership [RePEc ranking service, February 2013].

         •  Festschrift: “Quantitative Economic Policies”, editors R Neck, C Richter, and P Mooslechner, Springer Verlag, published in honour of my 60th birthday.

         •  Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (Scotland’s Academy of Sciences)

         •  Chair of the Royal Society’s Economics and Business committee, 2001-2004.

         •  Medal for Excellence in Research, University of Rome (“La Sapienza”), 2009.

             Highest Quality Rating for Contributions to Economics by Anbar Intelligence;

             21st Century Award for achievement by the International Biography Centre.

         •  Listed in: “Who’s Who (UK)”; “Who's Who in Scotland”; “Who’s Who in America”; “Who’s Who in the World”; “Who’s Who in Business and Finance”; “Distinguished              People of Today”; “Global Who’s Who in Economics”, and many others.

         •  Fulbright Scholar, 1992-94

         •  Council Member, Scottish Economic Society 1998-2006.

         •  Advisor to the Dutch Minister of Finance on the development of Eurozone economic policy (2008) for his presentation to the EU's “Euro at Ten” conference,                  with the Netherlands in the chair.

         •  Featured speaker on fiscal governance, G20 follow up conference, New Delhi, 2012.

         •  Expert witness to the Scottish and UK Parliaments.

Languages:

English (mother tongue); German (near fluent); Dutch (spoken); French (reading).