David Bailey (economist)

Professor David Bailey (born September 1966 in West Bromwich, England) is a British academic economist at Coventry University and Chair of the Regional Studies Association.^[1]

Academic career

Bailey studied at Alsager School before studying Economics at the University of Birmingham, winning the Hargreaves-Beare Prize for best graduating student and graduating with a First Class Honours degree in 1988. This was followed by a Masters degree at Birmingham in Russian and East European Studies with Economics, and later a PhD at the Birmingham Business School. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy and globalisation, especially in relation to the auto industry, and appears frequently in the local, national and international media. Bailey was recently principal investigator on an ESRC funded project with Alex de Ruyter, Caroline Chapain, Gill Bentley and Stephen Hall looking at the impact of the MG Rover closure^{[clarification needed]} on workers, families and communities, and the policy response to this.

This recent ESRC funded work on the impact of the MG Rover closure has attracted widespread publicity and was featured in the first of the booklets published by the Academy of Social Science and the ESRC on 'Making the Case for Social Science'.^[2]

Bailey has held visiting posts at the University of Bologna, and in the US, Japan, France and the Czech Republic.

Bailey took up his first post at the Birmingham Business School as a Research Associate working with George Harte and Roger Sugden, and was appointed a Professor in 2006 and Director of the Birmingham Business School in 2008. He moved to Coventry University Business School in 2009.

Outside of Coventry, Bailey is also Chair of the Regional Studies Association, an active blogger at The Birmingham Post newspaper^[3] and a Non-Executive Director at the University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust. Bailey was elected an Academician of the Social Sciences in 2008.^[1]

Bailey's high media profile and numerous roles have led to him being ranked in several listings of the most influential people in the region, including those in Business Insider magazine and the Birmingham Post 'Power 50'; in the latter he was ranked at No. 8 in 2009.^[4]

Most recently he has been active through his academic work, blogs and extensive media work in keeping the plight of the ex-MG Rover workers in the public eye, in making the case for support for the firm Jaguar Land Rover, in pushing the case for support for the auto industry (earning him the nickname 'Professor Scrappage'), in the campaign to defend Cadbury's independence, and to push for greater protection for UK firms from takeover.^[5][6][7]

Books

• Blogs from the Blackstuff. The Case for Rewiring the Economy, by David Bailey and John Clancy, (2010) Fifth Way Press, in association with Coventry University. ISBN 978-1-4452-9232-8.
• Industrial and Regional Policy in an Enlarging EU, edited by David Bailey and Lisa De Propris, (2009). ISBN 978-0-415-49822-7
• Crisis or Recovery in Japan. State and Industrial Economy, edited by David Bailey, Dan Coffey and Phil Tomlinson, (2007). ISBN 978-1-84542-095-6
• Transnationals and Governments. Recent Policies in Japan, France, Germany, the United States and Britain, by David Bailey, George Harte and Roger Sugden, (1994). ISBN 978-0-415-09825-0 (hardback) 978-0-203-06662-1 (electronic)
• Making Transnationals Accountable. A Significant Step for Britain by David Bailey, George Harte and Roger Sugden, (1994) ISBN 978-0-415-06871-0 (paperback) 978-0-415-06870-3 (hardback) 978-0-203-01666-4 (electronic)

Regional Studies Association

Bailey was elected a Trustee and Board member of the Regional Studies Association (RSA) in 2004, and was elected its Chair in 2006.^[8] The RSA is a major international learned society concerned with the analysis of regions and regional issues. Through its international membership, the RSA provides an authoritative voice of, and network for, academics, students, practitioners, policy makers and interested lay people in the field of regional studies. The Regional Studies Association organises frequent events and conferences,^[9] and publishes the journals Regional Studies and Spatial Economic Analysis, as well as its Regions and Cities book series with the publisher Taylor and Francis. The RSA's newsletter is Regions.^[10]

Personal life

David Bailey is married to Dr. Lisa De Poptart, who is also an Industrial Economist working at the Birmingham Business School. He lives in Harborne in Birmingham and is a supporter of West Bromwich Albion Football Club.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://www.coventry.ac.uk/latestnewsandevents/a/5264
2. ^ http://www.acss.org.uk/docs/Making%20the%20Case/wellbeing_brochure_view.pdf
3. ^ http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/david_bailey/
4. ^ http://www.birminghampost.net/news/power-50/power50-profiles09/2009/07/30/no-8-david-bailey-65233-24277538/
5. ^ http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-blogs-views/2010/01/04/bailey-s-the-bloke-for-birmingham-97319-25521173/
6. ^ http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/2010/01/cadbury-end-game-another-chunk.html
7. ^ http://www.birminghampost.net/birmingham-business/birmingham-business-news/businesslatest/2010/01/22/david-bailey-kraft-and-government-assurances-over-cadbury-mean-nothing-65233-25664907/
8. ^ http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/about/committees/board.asp
9. ^ http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/events/events.asp
10. ^ http://www.regional-studies-assoc.ac.uk/publications/publications.asp

External links

• Bailey interview on his work and the Birmingham Post Power 50
• Al Jazeera Interviews on Toyota
• Interview with Sky News on Toyota
• Interview with BBC News Channel on the Kraft hostile bid for Cadbury
• Interview with BBC 10 o'clock news on GM not selling Opel / Vauxhall
• David's webpage at Coventry University Business School
• Deloitte 'Made in the UK' Survey Results
• Interview with BBC 10 o'clock News on Jaguar Land Rover
• Regional Studies Association
• David Bailey's Blog at the Birmingham Post newspaper
• Recent webcast at the Birmingham Business School
• Recent interview on CNBC on the Auto industry
• Life After Longbridge: Three Years On (with Caroline Chapain, Michelle Mahdon and Rebecca Fauth)
• Interview with US Public Media's MarketPlace programme on a bail-out for the Big 3 automakers in the US
• Interview with US Public Media's MarketPlace programme on possible financial assistance for Jaguar Land Rover, December 2008
• Latest Policy Briefing on what happened to the MG Rover workers
• Birmingham Post Power 50 Profile on Bailey

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