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Summer 2007 Vol 19 Number 1 Magazine Summer 2007 Vol 19 Number 1 Magazine After Blair The Brown inheritance THE MAGAZINE FOR ALUMNI OF THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE Individuals, families and groups welcome Singles from £30 Twins from £48 Triples from £62 OF LONDON For further information and booking enquiries contact: www.lsevacations.co.uk Sales team Marketing Office Room G03, Bankside House 24 Sumner Street London SE1 9JA Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7575 Offering good quality, affordable Fax: +44 (0)20 7955 7676 Email: [email protected] accommodation in central locations Accommodation availability Summer 2007 18 June – 29 September 2007 Christmas 2007 15 December – 5 January 2008 Easter 2008 15 March – 28 April Bankside House London SE1 Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5750 Butlers Wharf London SE1 Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5798 Carr-Saunders Hall London W1 Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5888 Grosvenor House Studios London WC2 Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5950 178 High Holborn London WC1 Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5737 Northumberland House London WC2 Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5600 Passfield Hall London WC1 Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5925 Rosebery Hall London EC1 Tel: +44 (0)20 7107 5850 Or email: [email protected] Contents Message from Features 8 the editor 4 Headline news 6 The Brown inheritance In this issue we do some future-gazing. What will the UK be What will UK politics be like in a post-Blair era? like under a new prime minister? Who are the new ‘Britons’? Patrick Dunleavy considers the scenarios. What do the workforce of 2010 expect from their future employers? What does a mentor bring to a mentee that 8 Culture clash or culture club? helps them with career and personal development? As national identity remains a topic of much discussion, who feels British? Alan Manning and We also look forward to welcoming new professors to the Sanchari Roy explain their research findings. School. Sir Nicholas Stern re-joins LSE this summer as the first holder of the IG Patel Chair, heading a new India 11 Table talk Observatory within LSE’s Asia Research Centre. Professor Howard Davies discusses the ups and downs of 18 Paul Kennedy will be the first holder of the Phillipe Roman university league tables. Chair in History and International Affairs and in 2008 Professor Sevket¸ Pamuk joins as Professorial Fellow in 12 Workforce 2010 Contemporary Turkish Studies. What’s on the mind of global graduate students soon to enter the workforce? Christine Robers reports. New academic appointments are important to the School’s international standing in a ‘league table’ world. But as 14 Turkey – is the glass more than half full? Howard Davies points out, table talk should always be taken evket Pamuk contemplates Turkey’s economy with a pinch of salt. What matters most to a community is its and political prospects. people. In this issue we pay tribute to the outgoing chair of 16 My mentor and me LSE’s Court of Governors Lord Grabiner, who steps down in The LSE Alumni Mentoring Network has expanded December after nine years of service. rapidly since its inception in 1999. Mentors and And there’s still time to enjoy art and music at the School, mentees explain why it works. 24 sporting success and many stories of what alumni and alumni groups are up to. Enjoy the summer and the rest 18 A passionate advocate of your 2007. Lord Grabiner QC steps down in December as chair of the School’s Court of Governors and Council, to be succeeded by Sir Peter Sutherland. He reflects on what’s kept him so involved with LSE. Judith Higgin 20 LSE and India An Asia Forum in Delhi, the new IG Patel Chair, Urban Age in Mumbai – India remains in the spotlight. LSE Magazine is published twice a year by the Press and Information Office at the 24 All kinds of artistry London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7060. Fax: +44 (0)20 7852 3658. Email: [email protected] Above: Tribal girl at Tian Chi by Emma Yan Perry from the LSE Editor Judith Higgin Production Editor Fiona Whiteman Perspectives online gallery Alumni News Editor John Paul Nunes Regulars Art and Design Editor Claire Harrison Assistant Art and Design Editor Ailsa Drake Photography (unless stated) Nigel Stead Editorial Assistants Deirdre French, Toni Sym, 22 Rodent’s rambles Jessica Winterstein, Esther Adediran Printed by: Pindar 23 Letters Published by The London School of Economics and Political Science (‘LSE’), Houghton Street, Cover image: Rory Morrison London WC2A 2AE. LSE is a School of the University of London. It is a Charity and is incorporated in England as a company limited by guarantee under the Companies Acts (Reg number 70527). 27 News Copyright in editorial matter and in the Magazine as a whole belongs to LSE ©2007. Copyright in individual articles belongs to the authors who have asserted their moral rights ©2007. 34 Reunions LSE Magazine online All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, 35 Alumni groups LSE Magazine is now available nor be issued to the public or circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published. at www.lse.ac.uk/lsemagazine. Requests for permission to reproduce any article or part of the Magazine should be sent to the 40 Where are they now? editor at the above address. The online link enables readers In the interests of providing a free flow of debate, views expressed in this Magazine are not necessarily 43 Obituaries those of the editor, LSE alumni or LSE. to have an electronic archive of Although every effort is made to ensure the accuracy and reliability of material published in this 46 Book notes features as well as quick links Magazine, LSE accepts no responsibility for the veracity of claims or accuracy of information provided by contributors. to alumni news, groups and Freedom of thought and expression is essential to the pursuit, advancement and dissemination of knowledge. LSE seeks to ensure that intellectual freedom and freedom of expression within events, plus advertising and the law is secured for all our members and those we invite to the School Printed on 90gsm Revive Silk 50/50 recycled paper contact information. I Summer 2007 I LSE Magazine I 3 Second term for the Director Howard Davies is to continue as LSE director until 2013. At its meeting on 6 March 2007, the LSE Council decided to offer Howard Davies a second term of office as director of LSE to run from 1 October 2008 to 30 September 2013. He accepted. He said: ‘In comparison with many other British universities, LSE is in a strong position but there is a lot more to do. I enjoy the job, like the people here and am proud to be associated with such a great institution.’ Chairman of Court and Council Lord Grabiner said: ‘Since joining LSE as director in October 2003, Howard Davies has brought significant intellectual, financial and managerial skills to the role, which are exactly what we require.’ Malaysia donation The prime minister of Malaysia, Dato Seri Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi (pictured), visited LSE in January for a donation of £50,000 to install a Malaysia Room in the New Academic Building. 4 Howard Davies received the cheque from the president of the LSE Alumni Society of Malaysia, Dato Dr Munir Majid (BSc Economics 1971 and PhD International Relations 1978). More than 90 Malaysian students, including representatives from the Committee of the LSE Malaysian-Singapore Society and the LSE Malaysian Club, attended the ceremony. Howard Davies said: ‘I am delighted that there will be a room in our new building named to mark the longstanding links between Malaysia and LSE. We are most grateful to all those who have contributed.’ (See page 38). 7 Professor Paul Kennedy joins School Professor Paul Kennedy will be the first holder of the Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs at the School. Professor Kennedy is currently the J Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches on political, economic, and strategic issues. He is one of the most well known international historians working in the field today, and has reached a global audience through his books The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers (1987) and Preparing for the Twenty-First Century (1993). His latest, The 8 Parliament of Man: the past, present and future of the United Nations (2006), is inspired by the work he did on a report for MICHAEL MARSLAND /YALE UNIVERSITY MICHAEL MARSLAND /YALE the secretary general for the 50th anniversary of the UN. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2000 for services to history and elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2003. Professor Arne Westad, co-director of LSE’s Cold War Studies Centre, where the chair will be based, said: ‘Professor Kennedy’s presence at LSE next year will be of key importance in our ambitions to launch the School as a meeting place between the study of history and present day international concerns.’ LSE’s Philippe Roman Chair in History and International Affairs is made possible by a private donation to the School, and Professor Kennedy will be the inaugural holder of this prestigious LIAM CHAMBERS visiting position for the academic year 2007-08. 4 I LSE Magazine I Summer 2007 I Headline news 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Many eminent speakers have visited recently 8 1 Gerhard Schröder, chancellor of Germany International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the 6 Andrus Ansip, prime minister of Estonia, from 1998 to 2005, spoke about prospects for intergovernmental organisation that is part of gave a lecture in the series of events hosted by peaceful development in a globalised world as the United Nations system.
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