Professor Alasdair Smith
Biography
Alasdair Smith has been a Professor of Economics at the University of Sussex since 1981 and was Vice-Chancellor of the University from 1998 to 2007. His academic work focuses on the effects of international trade on competition, growth and the distribution of income; and he also has interests in the economics of public sector pensions and in the economics of higher education. He was chair of the 1994 Group of universities from 2001 to 2005, and chair of the Universities and Colleges Employers Association in 2006-7. He has been a member of the Prison Service Pay Review Body and of the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ Remuneration. From 2007 until 2010, he was a consultant to the then Department for Children, Schools and Families, supporting university involvement in the Academy schools programme. He was a member of the expert advisory group to Lord Hutton’s Independent Public Service Pensions Commission, and is now a member of the Determinations Panel of the Pensions Regulator. From January 2012 he will be a Deputy Chair of the Competition Commission. He has been chair of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body and a member of the Senior Salaries Review Body since March 2010.
Remunerated Interests
Part-time tutor, Department of Economics, University of Sussex.
Member, Determinations Panel, The Pensions Regulator
Unremunerated Interests
Research Professor of Economics, University of Sussex
Registered Shareholdings
No registered shareholdings
Ownership of Land and Property
Shared ownership of family home in East Sussex and of a flat in London.
Party Political Activity
None
Other Declarations
None
Date of Registration
28th November 2007