Business Economics MA: Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

The School: This course is delivered by staff in Kingston University's School of Economics. The School, established in the late 1960s, quickly developed a strong reputation for teaching economics and has been offering postgraduate courses since the 1980s.

In recent years, economics staff have been developing their research activity to enhance the quality of our MA courses. The School is proud of its tradition of meeting the learning needs of students from a wide variety of backgrounds and with a wide range of ambitions for their future careers. You can read more about our activities on the School of Economics' web pages.

The Faculty: The School of Economics is part of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Students benefit from a lively study environment, thanks to the wide range of postgraduate courses on offer.. As well as economics, programmes cover everything from English literature and music to human rights and politics.

The Faculty provides a vibrant and forward-thinking environment for study with:

• courses designed in collaboration with industry professionals - keeping you up to date with the latest developments;
• established connections with the London arts and media scene - with a range of guest speakers, professors and lecturers visiting the University; and
• committed and enthusiastic staff - many of whom are expert practitioners as well as leading academics and researchers.

The Faculty's combination of academics and practitioners makes it a unique environment in which to further your studies and your career.

Dr Willy Spanjers

Dr Willy Spanjers is the MA course director and deputy head of the School of Economics. Willy obtained his doctorate in mathematical economics from Tilburg University in the Netherlands and now lectures on economic analysis in various contexts. His main research focus is the economics of uncertainty, particularly of incalculable risk.

Willy has published in the Royal Economic Society's Economic Journal and in other academic journals.

Dr Paul Auerbach

Paul Auerbach obtained his PhD in Economics from the University of Wisconsin in 1973 and since 1990 he has been Reader in Economics at Kingston University. He is the author of Competition: the Economics of Industrial Change (Oxford: Basil Blackwell 1988). Recent work has been directed at the relationship between education (and human development, broadly considered) and economic development. He is completing a book on socialism.

Dr Hong Li

Dr Hong Li lectured in China and Australia before coming to Kingston. She teaches corporate finance for the Economics MAs, plus econometrics and business forecasting methods for the Business and Economic Forecasting MSc.

Hong's current research output includes publications on economic growth and development, plus the linkages between financial markets in different countries.

Dr Kay Pollock

Dr Kay Pollock has a PhD from Birkbeck College, for which she researched macroeconomic policy. Kay teaches macroeconomics, econometrics and mathematical economics. She also directs the Business and Economic Forecasting MSc.

Dr José Sánchez-Fung

Dr José R Sánchez-Fung teaches and supervises research students in the area of monetary and financial economics in developing countries. He has published a large number of articles in this area and is also the co-author of the fourth edition of Monetary Economics in Developing Countries. José recently spent a year acting as director of research for the central bank of the Dominican Republic.

Dr Jalal Siddiki

Dr Jalal Siddiki joined the teaching staff after completing his PhD at Kingston. His doctoral research topic was financial liberalisation and, with Paul Auerbach, he has written a survey of this topic in the Journal of Economic Surveys. Jalal teaches macroeconomics and econometrics.

Dr Joachim Stibora

Dr Joachim Stibora teaches microeconomics and iInternational economics. His research concentrates on the development of theoretical models of international trade and economic development. He has published in Economica, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics. He has also worked as a consultant to the International Trade division of the World Bank.

Dr Julian Wells

Julian Wells trained as a journalist after leaving school, and worked in local newspapers and trade and technical periodicals before taking his BSc(Econ) as a mature student (Queen Mary London 1985), an MSc in Logic and Scientific Method (London School of Economics 1986) and a PhD in economics (The Open University 2007).

A varied teaching career has included extensive work in course development with the Open University (1996–2009). He joined Kingston as a senior lecturer in economics in 2003. His research interests stem from opposition to determinist ideas in social science. They extend from the new field of probabilistic political economy ('econophysics'), through the rediscovery of Marx's statistical thought, to the ways in which agent-based modelling of social and economic processes undercuts elitism and meritocracy and supports egalitarianism.