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Wyn P. Grant (United Kingdom), Vice President Africa-Europe |
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Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick. He was chair of the Political Studies Association of the UK (2002-05) and was president until 2008, since then serving as a vice-president. He was President of the British Politics Group of the American Political Science Association 2004-06. He was elected a member of the executive committee of the International Political Science Association in 2006. He has taught at Warwick since 1971 and was chair of the Department of Politics and International Studies, 1990-97. He was Marshall-Monnet fellow, University of Washington, Seattle, 1999.
His main areas of expertise are pressure groups, government-business relations, agriculture and food policy and economic policy including globalisation. His books include Business and Politics in Britain (2nd edition, 1993); The Common Agricultural Policy (1997); Pressure Groups and British Politics (2000); Economic Policy in Britain (2002); Agriculture in the New Global Economy (with William Coleman and Timothy Josling, 2005); and Managing Your Academic Career (with Philippa Sherrington, 2006). His main areas of teaching are research methods, economic policy-making and crop biology.
He has undertaken work for the broadcast media, particularly radio, for thirty years, including Sky Television, Radio 4 and Radio 5. He is a frequent commentator on political developments for Reuters news agency. He is actively involved in integrating the activities of Horticulture Research International in the work of the University of Warwick and was awarded £350k under the RELU programme with natural scientists at Wellesbourne for work on bio-pesticides and their regulation. He was awarded a grant of over £1m with colleagues at Warwick from biological sciences, economics and law on the governance of livestock disease. Curriculum Vitae (pdf) |
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Dernière mise à jour : ( 21-10-2009 )
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