Prof Ronald Amann

Career: conslt OECD 1965-68; Univ of Birmingham: asst lectr, lectr then sr lectr 1968-83, dir Centre for Russian and E European Studies 1983-89, prof of comparative politics 1985-2003 (emeritus prof 2003-), dean Faculty of Commerce and Social Sci 1989-91, pro-vice-chllr 1991-94; chief exec and dep chm ESRC 1994-99, DG Centre for Management and Policy Studies Cabinet Office 1999-2002; specialist advsr and witness Foreign Affrs Ctee and Ctee on Sci and Technol House of Commons; chm: Steering Ctee ESRC E-W Research Initiative, Advsy Bd Centre for Res on Innovation and Competition Univ of Manchester 2001-; memb: Cncl Sch of Slavonic and E Euro Studies Univ of London 1986-89, Nat Technol Foresight Steering Gp 1995-2000, Steering Ctee Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation LSE 2000-; chm Protective Services Ctee ind memb W Midlands Police Authy 2007-; AcSS 1999. FRSA

Books and Publications: Science Policy in the USSR (with Berry and Davies, 1969), The Technological Level of Soviet Industry (with Cooper and Davies), Industrial Innovation in the Soviet Union (with Cooper, 1982), Technical Progress and Soviet Economic Development (with Cooper, 1986)