Pinder, John
20 June 1924 ((GB)) - 07 March 2015 ((GB))Identity Area
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Prof. John Pinder was educated at Marlborough College and King's College, Cambridge where he studied maths and economics. After second world war service in the West African Artillery, he took up a position in the Federal Union in 1950 as press officer. After two years he moved to the Economic Intelligence Unit, the economic research and consultancy organisation in The Economist Newspaper Group, which studied the economies of European countries, in particular of the European Community, and in 1957 became its international director. In 1964 he became the Director of the research institute that was then called Political and Economic Planning (PEP), which was a think tank, which after merging with the Center for Studies in Social Policy (CSSP) later became the Policy Studies Institute (PSI). The PSI is an independent institute which undertakes applied research in the fields of economic policy, social policy and political institutions. He remained in that position until 1985.
From 1970-1978, John Pinder was also Head of the Economics Department at the College of Europe in Bruges, before his appointment as Professor responsible for the course on the Community and Eastern Europe.
He has been Chairman of the Federal Trust, Deputy Chairman of the European Movement in Britain, Vice-President of the International European Movement and President of the Union of European Federalists (1984-90) and member of the boards of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on European integration, of the Trans European Policy Studies Association and of the Institut für Europäische Politik. He has published extensively on the politics, economics and history of the EC/EU and of federalism.
Publications: Britian and the Common Market (1961). Europe against de Gaulle (1963). Europe after de Gaulle (with Roy Pryce, 1969). The Economics of Europe (1971). Federal Union: The Pioneers - A History of Federal Union (with Richard Mayne, 1990). Altiero Spineli and the British Federalists: Writings by Beveridge, Robbins and Spinelli 1937-1943 (1999). Foundations of Democracy in the European Union: From the Genesis of Parliamentary Democracy to the European Parliament (1999).
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Pinder, John
20 June 1924 ((GB)) - 07 March 2015 ((GB))Identity Area
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Prof. John Pinder was educated at Marlborough College and King's College, Cambridge where he studied maths and economics. After second world war service in the West African Artillery, he took up a position in the Federal Union in 1950 as press officer. After two years he moved to the Economic Intelligence Unit, the economic research and consultancy organisation in The Economist Newspaper Group, which studied the economies of European countries, in particular of the European Community, and in 1957 became its international director. In 1964 he became the Director of the research institute that was then called Political and Economic Planning (PEP), which was a think tank, which after merging with the Center for Studies in Social Policy (CSSP) later became the Policy Studies Institute (PSI). The PSI is an independent institute which undertakes applied research in the fields of economic policy, social policy and political institutions. He remained in that position until 1985.
From 1970-1978, John Pinder was also Head of the Economics Department at the College of Europe in Bruges, before his appointment as Professor responsible for the course on the Community and Eastern Europe.
He has been Chairman of the Federal Trust, Deputy Chairman of the European Movement in Britain, Vice-President of the International European Movement and President of the Union of European Federalists (1984-90) and member of the boards of the International Political Science Association's Research Committee on European integration, of the Trans European Policy Studies Association and of the Institut für Europäische Politik. He has published extensively on the politics, economics and history of the EC/EU and of federalism.
Publications: Britian and the Common Market (1961). Europe against de Gaulle (1963). Europe after de Gaulle (with Roy Pryce, 1969). The Economics of Europe (1971). Federal Union: The Pioneers - A History of Federal Union (with Richard Mayne, 1990). Altiero Spineli and the British Federalists: Writings by Beveridge, Robbins and Spinelli 1937-1943 (1999). Foundations of Democracy in the European Union: From the Genesis of Parliamentary Democracy to the European Parliament (1999).
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