GEP expansion

The Nottingham Centre for Globalisation and Economic Policy (GEP) has recently completed a three-year long cycle of expansion. Eight, newly-hired faculty members have joined the Centre: four full professors (Giovanni Facchini, Paolo Epifani, Holger Breinlich and Omar Licandro), two associate professors (Giammario Impullitti and Facundo Albornoz), one assistant professor (Roberto Bonfatti) and one post-doc (Wanyu Chung).

With 25 Internal Research Fellows in Nottingham and many more Internal and External Fellows around the world, GEP is the largest academic research centre focusing on international economics in the UK, and one of the largest in Europe.

The Centre was founded in 2001 by David Greenaway, and is now also present at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China and the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus. With its four research programs (Political Economy of Globalisation; Globalisation and Labour Markets; Globalisation, Productivity and Technology; China and the World Economy), it organises a large number of academic activities. It runs a highly successful weekly trade seminar, which attracts top speakers from Europe and the US, and a monthly internal brown-bag seminar. It organises or co-organises an average of six conferences a year, among which an annual conference, an annual GEP China conference, an annual GEP Malaysia conference, and recently three three-way trade conferences co-organised with CEPII (Paris) and CESIfo (Munich). In addition, the GEP/CEPR annual Postgraduate Conference, now in its 15th year, has established itself as the leading European forum for top PhD students working on globalisation-related subjects.

GEP also organises four series of annual public lectures in Nottingham, Ningbo and Malaysia, given by top academics and distinguished speakers from outside academia.

For information on 2016 events, please visit the GEP website.

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