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Danny Quah is Head of Department and Professor of Economics at The London School of Economics and Political Science. Quah obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his A.B. from Princeton University. He joined LSE in 1991 after having taught as an assistant professor in MIT's Economics Department. In the UK, he has served on the Academic Panels of H.~M.~Treasury and the Office for National Statistics. Quah is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London and a Governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.
From 1996 through 1998, he held
a British Academy Research Award to
study ``Growth and distribution in dematerialized, knowledge-based
economies'',
and from 1998 through 2000, an ESRC award for ``Trade and growth
across weightless economies.''
In July 1998 the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded
him a grant for continued
study of the weightless economy and the economics of information
technology.
He continues to work on income distribution dynamics.
To do much of his empirical research,
Quah has developed his own
econometrics shell
Quah is on the editorial board of the Journal of Economic Growth. He had previously served on the editorial boards of European Economic Review Journal of Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomic Dynamics and Review of Economic Studies, and was Programme Chair for the year 2000 European Economics Association Annual Congress. His publications include papers in American Economic Review, Econometrica, Economic Journal, European Economic Review, International Economic Review, Journal of Economic Growth, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Political Economy, and Scandinavian Journal of Economics. He has delivered the Sir Richard Stone Lectures, Invited Lectures to the Econometric Society, the International Economic Association, the Royal Economic Society, and the Scottish Economic Society. At the LSE, Quah has taught research courses in macro-econometrics, the first-year postgraduate macroeconomics course, and the introductory undergraduate microeconomics course to over 700 first-year students. Quah contributes regularly to the news media in London and elsewhere. Some of his weightless economy writings have been translated into 18 different languages. In January 2001 he was named one of ten heroes of dissemination by the ESRC. Quah used to be co-WebWeaver at http://econ.lse.ac.uk/. For other than academic work and presentations, Quah is represented exclusively by Celebrity Speakers Limited. He holds a blackbelt in taekwon-do, and competes at regional and national TAGB tournaments. [ 2-page CV [pdf] (72Kb, July 2008) or official CV [pdf] (96Kb, November 2008) ] |
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