Professor Duncan Maclennan, Scotland

Professor Duncan Maclennan CBE FRSE is an applied economist with interests in cities, neighbourhoods and housing. He is Director of the Centre for Housing Research at the University of St Andrews.

He spent the period 2004-2009 working in Australia, as a Chief Economist in the Government of Victoria, and then Canada, at the University of Ottawa and as Chief Economist in the Federal Department for Infrastructure and Cities. Previously he held Chairs in Economics and Urban Studies at the University of Glasgow, Directed the UK’s national research centre on housing (1985 -1997), was Economic Adviser to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (1989 to 2004) and Principal Consultant to OECD (1985-99) and served on the Board of Scottish Homes (1989-99). He was Special Adviser to Donald Dewar and his successor from 1999 to 2003.

Program information: New frontiers for housing policy: education, health, employment