Honorary doctorates from the University of Basel from 2016
Here you will find a list of all honorary doctorates awarded by the University of Basel starting from 2016, with details of the laudatory speech and brief information on the academic CV of the honourees. In 2020, the University of Basel refrained from holding the Dies academicus and awarding honorary doctorates due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ehrenpromotion Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät 2021
| Name | Slade, Margaret |
| Geschlecht | f |
| Datum | 26.11.2021 |
| Fakultät | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät |
| Titel | Dr. rer. pol. |
| Begründung |
The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Basel founded in 1460 hereby confers all the dignity, rights and privileges of an honorary doctorate in economics upon Professor Margaret Emily Slade from Canada for her outstanding scientific achievements in the field of industrial organization as a pioneer in linking theory and empirics in the analysis of firms and markets; for her success in deriving differentiated policy recommendations based on well-founded research, with special emphasis on resource and energy markets and retail trade; for her exemplary role in integrating business and economics, in combining empirical methodological competence with theoretical rigor, and in linking scientific quality to practical relevance – all goals to which our faculty strives. |
| CV |
Margaret E. Slade (amerikanisch-kanadische Doppelbürgerin) schloss ihr Mathematik-Studium mit einem BA-Abschluss am Vassar College und einen Master-Abschluss an der University of California, Berkeley, ab. Sie arbeitete als Mathematikerin für Shell Development in Kalifornien, das Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in Neuseeland und das US Geological Survey in Kalifornien und Washington, D.C., bevor sie an der George Washington University in Wirtschaftswissenschaften promovierte. Sie unterrichtete anschliessend als Assistant, Associate und Full Professor an der Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia. Von 2002 bis 2008 hatte sie an der University of Warwick die erste Leverhulme Professorship in Industrial Economics inne, bevor sie an die Vancouver School of Economics zurückkehrte. |
| Quellen |
© Foto Prof. Margaret Slade: Vancouver School of Economics at University of British Columbia |
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