Paul Lewis
Paul is a Political Economist interested in examining and understanding key features of contemporary capitalism. He has an undergraduate background in the natural sciences and the philosophy of science, a post-graduate training in political science and international relations, and professional experience as a management consultant.
Paul studied Physics and Philosophy at the University of Durham before spending five years in the private sector working as a management consultant, business development manager in a start-up internet company, and as an internal strategy consultant in a blue chip retail company. His time in business generated an interest in political economy, particularly the related issues of work and distribution, and in 2003 he enrolled at the University of Birmingham to undertake a taught MA in International Political Economy. He subsequently secured an ESRC 1+3 fellowship to undertake his PhD, ‘Understanding Income Distribution in Modern Capitalist Economies’ which examines the theory and empirics of wages and returns to capital at a detailed industry level across the UK, US, France and Germany. During his PhD, Paul was a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (MPIfG), Cologne, and the Amsterdam Research Centre for Corporate Governance Regulation, The Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
Paul comes to Birmingham Business School from the University of Warwick where he held an ESRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, was an Associate of the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) and a member of the Department of Politics and International Studies. Paul was Research Associate for the Warwick Commission into Reform of the International Financial Architecture and coordinator for the newly formed Political and Economic Sociology Network (PESON) between CSGR, the Political Economy Research Centre at the University of Sheffield and the International Center for Business and Politics at Copenhagen Business School.
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