Howard Davies (economist)

Sir Howard Davies ( born 1951 ) is a British historian and business administration and is currently Professor at the Institut d' études politiques de Paris. From 2003 to 2011 he was director of the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Career

Davies studied history and foreign languages ​​at Merton College, Oxford University. He then acquired the additional degree of Master of Science in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University. Following a stint as private secretary to the British ambassador in Paris, he worked from 1982 to 1987 for the London office of McKinsey. There, he worked in the British Audit Commission ( comparable to the German Federal Court of Auditors), in the British Employers' Confederation and finally as deputy director in the Bank of England. Before his appointment as Director of the prestigious London School of Economics, which corresponds to the position of a university president, he chaired the UK Financial Services Authority ( FSA), hold.

Director of the LSE

With Davies ' office in 2003 at the LSE a financier and banker in the footsteps of such popular predecessors such as Anthony Giddens and Ralf Dahrendorf, both of which are even scientists. In this respect, the choice of the relevant Commission seemed surprising, but it reflects the turn of the LSE and its graduates for the City of London. The appeal was a long search for a suitable successor for Giddens preceded, during which Mary Robinson had rejected an offer. The first months of his tenure took Davies to promote the structural transformation of the campus.

On 3 March 2011 he submitted his resignation as director of the LSE in connection with financial support from the Libyan Gaddafi family to the LSE one. At first the geographer Judith Rees transitional succession Davies ' took over the directorship is held since September 2012 regularly by the U.S. sociologist Craig Calhoun.

Honors

Since 2000 Davies has been beaten to the Knight Bachelor, he may use the title "Sir". His former college in Oxford has a fellowship awarded to him in 2004 the honorary.