Sir Alan Budd Delivers Third Oundle Lecture
Sir Alan Budd (OO) delivered the third Oundle Lecture, entitled 'What Do Economists Know?' on 24 June in the Stahl Theatre. Sir Alan, together with the Master of the Grocers' Company, Mr Giles Mounsey-Heysham, members of the Governing Body, the Headmaster, parents, pupils, staff and Old Oundelians were among the 140 guests that attended the dinner held afterwards in the Great Hall. The occasion was organised to benefit the Oundle School Foundation and raise funds for scholarship and bursaries at Oundle, as well as for the British Performing Arts Medicine Trust, of which Sir Alan is Chairman. The transcript of his lecture will be posted shortly on www.oundlechronicle.com
Sir Alan Budd has been Provost of The Queen's College, Oxford, since July 1999, following his previous posts as Chief Economics Adviser to the Treasury and Head of the Government Economic Service (1991-1997). At Oxford he is Chairman of the University Investment Committee and of The Voltaire Foundation Fund Committee.
The fourth Oundle Lecture will take place on Thursday 23 June 2005 and will be giver by Dr Roger Malina (OO), astronomer and space scientist.