Alasdair Smith is a professor of economics and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex and former Chair of the 1994 Group. He is a noted international economist whose studies (often developed in concert with fellow economist Tony Venables) have been used by the European Union.
Smith was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland and is married to Sherry Ferdman, an Associate Tutor at Sussex. He is a graduate of the London School of Economic...
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Alasdair Smith is a professor of economics and former Vice-Chancellor at the University of Sussex and former Chair of the 1994 Group. He is a noted international economist whose studies (often developed in concert with fellow economist Tony Venables) have been used by the European Union.
Smith was born on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland and is married to Sherry Ferdman, an Associate Tutor at Sussex. He is a graduate of the London School of Economics and Oxford University. He later taught for 17 years at the London School of Economics before moving to the University of Sussex in 1981, and becoming Vice-Chancellor in 1998.
His pro-top-up fees stance resulted in the University of Sussex Students' Union calling for a vote of no-confidence in his leadership in a student election in February 2003. The members of the student union voted against Smith in large numbers. Smith later referred to the vote of no-confidence as "a clever piece of electioneering by some of the candidates standing for...
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