Yunus History at Glasgow University
-delivered Adam Smith Lecture 1 December 2008 as part of 250th anniversary celebrations
of Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments , while Sir Muir Russell was Principal. Anton Muscatelli became
Principal and Vice Chancellor In October 2009. On 4 July 2010 Anton signed Memorandum Of Understanding with Dr Yunus
to make Glasgow University and Institute of Social Business. This makes Glasgow unique in the world in having 2 university
partnerships with Dr Yunus (Glasgow Caledonian has Yunus Centre partnership formed by Principal Pamela Gillies and Yunus
Social Busienss professor of healthcare Cam Donaldson)
wikipedia on Anton Muscatelli:
Professor Muscatelli
succeeded Sir
Muir Russell as
Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Glasgow in October 2009.
[6] One of his first actions was creation of a post of Senior Vice-Principal, with responsibility for internationalisation,
a key aspect of his strategy for the University.
[8] He also put forward proposals to the
University Court which would see the University's current nine faculties restructured into four Colleges: College of Arts, College of Biomedicine,
College of Engineering and Physical Sciences and College of Law, Business, Social Sciences and Education
[9] The plans for restructuring have since been approved and will be in place by August 2010. Such structures already exist
at other universities in the UK, including
Aberdeen,
Birmingham,
Dundee and
Edinburgh.
Anton Muscatelli was born on 1 January 1962 in Italy to Ambrogio and Rosellina Muscatelli.
[2] His father, who was head of a shipping company, relocated the family first to Holland and then to Glasgow.
[3] Anton was educated at
The High School of Glasgow, at the time a publicly-funded grammar school, and the
University of Glasgow, where he graduated
M.A. (Hons) in Political Economy (1984) and took a
Ph.D. in Economics (1989).Professor Muscatelli has been a consultant to the
World Bank and the
European Commission, and was a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the
Secretary of State for Scotland from 1998-2000. Since 2007, he has been an adviser to the
House of Commons Treasury Select Committee on monetary policy, and in 2008 he was appointed to chair an independent expert group for the
Calman Commission on Devolution, set up by the
Scottish Parliament and led by the
Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, Sir
Kenneth Calman. This includes experts from the UK, Europe, and North America. He chaired the Research and Commercialisation Committee of
Universities Scotland in 2007-08 and from 2008-2010 is Convener of Universities Scotland and Vice-President of
Universities UK. He was appointed a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2001, and of the CESifo Economics Research Institute in
Munich in 1999.