J. R. Shackleton

Professor Shackleton, Dean of University of Westminster Business School, received Masters degrees from King's College Cambridge and the School of Oriental and African Studies (London University). He has taught at Westminster University, Queen Mary College, and the University of Buckingham. He has worked as an economic adviser for the U. K. government, working mainly on pensions.

He has served on the Council of the Royal Economic Society and the Executive Committee of the Association of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Trustee of the Institute of Economic Affairs.

Professor Shackleton has written extensively on labour market and related issues, and contributed to a range of U. K. think tanks, including the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Institute for Public Policy Research, the Employment Policy Institute, and the Adam Smith Institute. He has been an invited speaker at major conferences in the U. K., Germany, the Netherlands, Venezuela, and Spain. He has provided published evidence to Parliamentary Committees and other enquiries and has spoken at many institutions and public bodies. He has appeared over sixty times on television and radio programmes.

His work has focused in recent years on the barriers which discourage firms from creating jobs, including employment protection legislation as well as the influence of labour unions.

His consultancy work has included projects on workers' co-operatives, health economics, Sunday trading, the finance of Higher Education, the economics of ageing, and performance indicators. Professor Shackleton has also been involved for many years with selection to the Government Economic Service in the U. K., has chaired Schools Examination Boards and has served on various journal editorial boards.