Adviser to Tony Blair to speak on campus

Internationally known macro-economist and industrial relations expert David Soskice will give a series of talks this month at the university on employment and economic change in Europe and the United Kingdom.

Soskice is director of the Employment and Economic Change Unit, Social Science Research Center (Wissenschaftszentrum), Berlin, and emeritus fellow in Economics, University College, Oxford.

In addition to research, Soskice has been coordinating the development of long-term strategy on post-compulsory education and training (ages 16-18) for Prime Minister Tony Blair’s New Labour Government. He is the author of “Macroeconomics and the Wage Bargain: A Modern Approach to Employment, Inflation, and the Exchange Rate,” as well as numerous articles on education, training, and innovation in Europe and the United States.

He is visiting UW–Madison as a Marshall-Monnet Scholar-in-Residence at the European Union Center, which is co-sponsoring his talks with the Center on Wisconsin Strategy, the Center on World Affairs and the Global Economy, the La Follette Institute of Public Affairs and the Center on Education and Work.

The public lectures are:

• Wednesday, Sept. 22: “Economic and Monetary Union and the Future of the European Social Model,” 3:30 p.m., Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive. A reception inaugurating the second season of the European Union Center follows the talk.
• Thursday, Sept. 23, Professor Soskice gives his “take” on “The Fine Art of Policy Making at No. 10 Downing St.,” noon, conference room, La Follette Institute of Public Affairs, 1225 Observatory Drive.
• Friday, Sept. 24: “British Education and Training Policy,” noon, Room 253, Educational Sciences building, 1025 W. Johnson St.