Topic：What Does The Data Tell Us About History?
　　　　(用数据看历史)                
Time：14:30-15:30, 19 March, 2019                        
Venue：Room 118, Lab Building, School of International Education
Lecturer：Professor Bill Russell (University of Dundee, UK)

About the lecturer:
　　Dr Bill Russell is Professor of International Business at the University of Dundee School of Business. He graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1985 with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics (Honours) before undertaking an M.Phil. and D.Phil. in Economics at the University of Oxford which were conferred in 1996. Prior to arriving at the University of Dundee in August 1996, he had worked for ten years in the Research Department of the Reserve Bank of Australia.
　　Professor Russell’s primary teaching and research interest is macroeconomics and finance. He has published in the following five broad areas: (i) the theoretical basis of the negative long-run relationship between inflation and the markup, (ii) estimating the relationship between inflation and the markup, (iii) general empirical macroeconomics, (iv) modelling coffee prices, and (v) the methodology of macroeconomics.
　　Professor Russell is also the Academic Lead for New Programmes, Director of Programmes and Global Engagement at the School of Business, and Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Recruitment at the School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee, UK.