Invitation to public lecture by Nobel Laureate Professor Sir James Mirrlees

Professor Sir James Mirrlees

Monday 23 July 2012

The University of Queensland School of Economics in association with The Economics Society of Australia and ANU invites you to an ‘Eminent Speaker Series’ Public Lecture and Cocktail Reception with Professor Sir James Mirrlees, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences.

Event

The Eminent Speaker Series Public Lecture

Speaker

Professor Sir James Mirrlees

Topic

The Review of the Mirrlees Report

Venue

Lecture Theatre, UQ Centre, The University of Queensland, Union Road, St Lucia Campus

Date

Monday 23 July 2012

Time

6.15pm for 6.30pm, concluding at 8.15pm

RSVP

Monday 20 July 2012; enquiries to: l.rankin@uq.edu.au

About the speaker

Professor Sir James Mirrlees

Nobel Laureate in economic sciences, Professor Sir James A. Mirrlees was appointed as Master of Morningside College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in August 2009.

A pioneer in optimal taxation theory, Professor Sir James Mirrlees was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1996 in recognition of his fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information. He was knighted in 1997. After graduating from the University of Edinburgh in 1957, Professor Mirrlees was admitted to Trinity College at Cambridge University and received his PhD in Economics in 1963. From 1968 to 1995 he was Edgeworth Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Nuffield College. From 1995 to 2003, he has served as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Cambridge. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large at CUHK since 2002. Professor Mirrlees has also held visiting professorships at MIT, UC Berkeley, Yale and Melbourne.

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