Biography – Professor
Anton Muscatelli
Anton Muscatelli is Principal
and Vice-Chancellor of Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, from
He was previously
Vice-Principal (Strategy, Budgeting and Advancement) at the University of Glasgow
between 2004-07 and Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Glasgow
University from 2000-04. Whilst at
His fields of research interest
are monetary economics (including central bank independence and EMU), fiscal
policy and macroeconomics.
He has made a number of
contributions to his own discipline and the wider Social Sciences. He served on
the 2001 and 2008 RAE Panels for Economics and Econometrics. He is a member of
the Council of the Royal Economic Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Edinburgh, and an Academician in the Learned Societies of the Social Sciences.
He has been a member of the Research Grants Board of the ESRC, and its
International Advisory Committee, as well as Vice-Chair of its Large Grants
Scheme.
He is currently a special
adviser on monetary policy to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee.
He has served on the Panel of Economic Advisors of the Secretary of State for
Scotland (1998-2000), and has previously acted as consultant to the European
Commission, the World Bank, and RETI (a consortium of European regional
governments), and the National Australia Bank/Clydesdale Bank.
He has had numerous involvements
with learned societies, having been Editor of the journal of the Scottish
Economic Society (the Scottish Journal of Political Economy) between 1990-2003,
Programme Chair of the Royal Economic Society Conference in 2000 and Editor of
the Conference volume of the Economic Journal in 2001.
He has held visiting
appointments in numerous overseas HE institutions (including the