Frances Cairncross

Dame Frances Anne Cairncross, DBE (born 30 August 1944 in Otley, England) is a British economist, journalist and academic. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy, UCLA.[1] She chairs the Executive Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Career

Cairncross was on the staff of The Guardian from 1973-84, and before that spent periods on the financial staff of The Times, The Banker and The Observer. She was on the staff of The Economist for 20 years, most recently as management editor. She chaired the Economic and Social Research Council between 2001 and 2007 and was President of the British Science Association (2005–06).

Her book, The Company of the Future (ISBN 1861974051), was published in 2002 by Harvard Business School Press.[2] In March 2003, she won the Institute of Internal Auditors' annual award for business and management journalism. Cairncross is also the author of The Death of Distance (ISBN 0875848060), a study of the economic and social effects of the global communications revolution, first published in 1997 and re-published in a new edition in 2001.

Cairncross became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford in October 2004, a role she relinquished in October 2014.[3]

Cairncross is a non-executive director of Stramongate Ltd, and a presenter of BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme. In 2004-05, Cairncross held the honorary post of High Sheriff of Greater London.[4]

Education and personal life

Cairncross read Modern History at St Anne's College, Oxford, graduating in 1965, and holds an MA in Economics from Brown University, Rhode Island.

Cairncross is the daughter of the economist Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross, and niece of John Cairncross and is married to Hamish McRae.[5]

She holds honorary degrees from Trinity College Dublin, City University, and the Universities of Glasgow, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Loughborough[6] and Kingston.

Controversy

In January 1988, Frances Cairncross and Mary Ellen Synon wrote an article from the Economist that depicted the Republic of Ireland as bureaucratic and impoverished. [7] [8] This article caused anger within the Fianna Fáil government of the time. The Irish Department of Foreign Affairs also criticized the piece, stating that the Economist article "did serious damage to the image of Ireland overseas". [7]

References

  1. ↑ Senior Fellow UCLA School of Public Policy; accessed 13 June 2015.
  2. ↑ "Excerpt from the Book". Acm.org. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  3. ↑ "Exeter College Announces Selection of New Rector". Exeter College. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Andrew Purvis (23 June 2007). "The Guardian". London, UK: The Guardian. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Roy Greenslade "Big names among Independent leavers", guardian.co.uk (blog), 19 July 2013
  6. ↑ "Degree Speeches - Frances Cairncross". Lboro.ac.uk. Retrieved 24 December 2013.
  7. 1 2 Sam Smyth, "Mary, Ellen, Quite Contrary". Sunday Independent, 13th March 1990.
  8. ↑ "Paying Tax" The Irish Times, Monday 25th September 1989 (p.9)

Positions held

Academic offices
Preceded by
Marilyn Butler		 Rector of Exeter College, Oxford
2004–2014 		Succeeded by
Rick Trainor
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Unknown		 High Sheriff of Greater London
2004 		Succeeded by
Andrew Everard Martin Smith


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