List of University of Essex people

The following is a list of notable University of Essex people (in alphabetical order).

Notable Faculty

Vice Chancellors

*Sir Albert Sloman (1963 - 1987)
*Professor Martin Harris (1987 - 1993)
*Professor R J Johnston (1993 - 1995)
*Sir Ivor Crewe (1995 - 2007)
*Professor Colin Riordan (2007 - present)

Business & Economics

*George Christopher Archibald - Professor, Economics Department (1964 - 1970)
*Anthony Barnes Atkinson - Professor of Economics (1971 to 1976)
*Albert Rex Bergstrom - Professor Emeritus, Economics (1970 - 1992)
*Peter Hammond - Lecturer/Professor of Economics (1971 to 1979)
*Oliver Hart - Lecturer in Economics (1974 to 1975)
*Ravi Kanbur - Chair in Economics (1983 to 1987)
*Richard Lipsey - Head Professor of Economics (1963 - 1969)
*Michio Morishima - Visiting Professor of Economics (1968 to 1970)
*Michael Parkin - Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Chairman in Economics (1967 to 1970)
*Peter C.B. Phillips - Lecturer in Economics (1972 to 1976)

ciences

*George Alfred Barnard - Professor of Mathematics (1966 to 1975)
*Mohammed Ghanbari - Professor, Department of Electronic Systems Engineering (1996 - )
*Owen Holland - Professor of Computer Science
*Edward Tsang - Professor of Computer Science

Humanities

*Dawn Ades - Professor, Art History and Theory Department
*Robert D. Borsley - Professor of Linguistics (2000 - )
*Peter Carruthers Lecturer, Philosophy Department (1985 - 1991)
*Donald Davie - Professor of Literature (1964 - 1968)
*Peter Dews Professor of Philosophy (1988 - )
*Elaine Feinstein - Assistant Lecturer, English Literature (1967 - 1970)
*Michael Podro - Professor of Art History (1973 to 1997)
*Mark Sacks - Professor of Philosophy (1993 - 2008)
*José Emilio Pacheco Visiting Professor of Literature

ocial Sciences

*Jean Blondel - Professor of Politics (1964 - 1984)
*Kevin Boyle - Former Director, Human Rights Centre (3 terms)
*Hugh Brogan - Professor of History, (1994 to 1998)
*Ian Craib - Professor of Sociology (1973 - 2003)
*Vic Gatrell - Professor of British History (2003 - )
*Paul Hunt - Former Director, Human Rights Centre (2001 to 2003)
*Anthony King - Professor, Department of Government
*Emil Kirchner - Professor, Department of Government
*Alan Knight - Lecturer, History Department (1973 - 1985)
*Ernesto Laclau - Visiting Professor, Department of Government
*Geoffrey Martin - Professor, Department of History
*Harvey Molotch - Professor of Sociology
*Nigel S. Rodley - Current Head, Human Rights Centre (also a graduate: see below)
*David Sanders - Current Head, Department of Government
*Fatos Tarifa - Guest Lecturer

Notable Alumni

Academia

*Erkin Bairam - Professor of Economics, University of Otago (1991 - 2001)
*Martin J. Ball - Professor of Communicative Disorders, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
*Andrew Bennett - Principal, Saint Joseph's Institution International (Singapore)
*Richard Barbrook - Senior Lecturer in Humanities & Social Science, University of Westminster
*John Barrell - Professor of English, University of York
*David M. Barrett - Professor of Political Science, Villanova University
*Anthony Cohn - Professor of Automated Reasoning, University of Leeds
*Jean Drèze - Professor of Economics, Delhi School of Economics
*Kusuma Karunaratne - Sri Lankan Academic in the field of Sociology
*Alberto Pérez-Gómez - Professor of Architectural History, McGill University
*Stephen F. Jones - Academic in the field of Eastern European Affairs
*Ladislav Kohout - Professor of Computer Science, Florida State University
*Ernesto Laclau - Post-Marxist political theorist at Northwestern University, also Visiting Professor at Essex's Department of Government
*Peter Matanle - Academic Sociologist & Lecturer, University of Sheffield
*Maxine Molyneux - Professor of Sociology, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London
*Farish Ahmad Noor, Senior Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
*Nigel S. Rodley - International Human Rights Lawyer and Academic, University of Essex
*Jörg Siekmann - Professor of Computer Science, Universität des Saarlandes
*Michael Taylor - Professor of Politics, University of Washington
*Yeap Wai Kiang - Director of the Institute for Information Technology Research at the Auckland University of Technology.

Politics & Government

*Ian Austin - Labour Party Politican, MP for Dudley North
*John Bercow- Conservative Party Politician, MP for Buckingham
*Virginia Bottomley - Conservative Party politician
*Thozamile Botha - South African Politician
*Dragiša Burzan - Serbian Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Former Foreign Minister of Montenegro
*Fátima Choi - Director of Audit, Macau SAR, China
*Sean Farren - former Northern Irish Politician
*Duncan Shipley-Dalton - former Northern Irish Politician
*James Duddridge - Conservative Party Politican, MP for Rochford and Southend East
*Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen - British Trade Unionist
*James Gomez - Second Assistant Secretary to the Workers' Party of Singapore and Political Researcher
*Peter Housden - Permanent Secretary, Department for Communities and Local Government
*Omar Asghar Khan - Pakistani social activist, economist and politician
*Leung Yiu Chung - Member of the Hong Kong SAR Legislative Council
*Siobhain McDonagh - Labour Party politician
*Priti Patel - Conservative Party politician
*Paduka Osman bin Pengiran Haji Patra - Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Trade, Brunei
*Sipho Pityana - Director General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Africa
*Dimitrij Rupel - Foreign Minister of Slovenia
*Oscar Arias Sanchez - President of Costa Rica and 1987 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
*Muhammad Ali Saif - Former Pakistani Minister of Tourism
*David Triesman, Baron Triesman - Labour Party Member in the House of Lords, Chairman of the English Football Association
*Martin Whelton - Labour Party Politician, Mayor of London Borough of Merton
*Dr Kevin Roberto Casas Zamora - Former Vice-President of Costa Rica (2004 - 2007)
*Hoshyar Zebari - Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs

Business & Economics

*Richard Douthwaite - Economist, co-founder of Feasta
*Christopher A. Pissarides - British-Cypriot Economists, Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics
*George Provopoulos - Governor of the Bank of Greece & European Central Bank Governing Council Member.
*Yusli Mohamed Yusoff - CEO of Bursa Malaysia (Malaysia Exchange)

Actors & Directors

*William Burdett-Coutts - renowned Artistic Director of The Assembly, London
*Stephen Daldry - Film & Theatre Director (East 15 Acting School), BAFTA award-winner
*Nick Broomfield - Documentary film maker
*Mike Leigh - Film & Theatre Director (East 15 Acting School)
*Alison Steadman - Actress (East 15 Acting School), twice-nominated for BAFTA award

Law and Order

*Peter Joslin - Chief Constable of Warwickshire
*Michael J. Todd - Chief Constable of Greater Manchester from 2002 till 2008

Media and Journalism

*Dotun Adebayo - Radio Presenter on BBC FiveLive
*Brian Hanrahan - BBC foreign correspondent
*Isobel Lang - Meteorological Office weather forecaster (BBC, Sky) and TV presenter
*Nick Margerrison - Radio Presenter on Kerrang!Radio

Musicians

*Clint Boon - Keyboardist and lead singer of the Inspiral Carpets
*Steve Chandra Savale - Asian Dub Foundation guitarist

Architecture & Urban Planning

*Daniel Libeskind - architect to build the Freedom Tower and Memory Foundations on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City

Philosophy

*Simon Critchley - British Philosopher, Academic at the New School for Social Research
*William McNeill - British Philosopher, Academic at DePaul University

Literary Figures and Artists

*Charlie Connelly - Author and Broadcaster
*Claudia Jenner - Peruvian Linguist
*Kee Thuan Chye - Malaysian dramatist, poet and journalist
*Fraser Harrison - English Writer
*M. Murat İldan - Turkish Playwright
*Nigel Jenkins - Renowned Welsh Poet & Writer
*Marianne Majerus - Photographer
*Okello Oculi - Ugandan Novelist & Poet
*Ben Okri - Booker Prize Winner
*Douglas Oliver - English Contemporary Poet and Novelist
*Kate Rhodes - British Poet
*Michelene Wandor - English Playwright & Poet
*Nathan Zach - Israeli Poet

cience & Technology

*Richard Bartle - Co-creator of MUD1, the first ever MUD (Multi-User Dungeon)
*Phil O'Donovan - Founder (Cambridge Silicon Radio) Developer of bluetooth technology
*Roy Trubshaw - Co-creator of MUD1, the first ever MUD (Multi-User Dungeon)
*Rodolfo Neri Vela - Mexico's first astronaut

Human Rights

*Akram H. Chowdhury - Founder of the Bangladesh Rehabilitation Centre for Trauma Victims
*Alex Neve - Secretary General of Amnesty International Canada
*Antonio Pradjasto - Deputy Director of Demos’ Center for Democracy and Human Rights Studies, Indonesia