Professors Lucia Reisch & Mauro Guillén & Dr Lauren Davies elected as Queens' Fellows

Today the Governing Body elected two new Professorial Fellows and one new Bye-Fellow who will make significant contributions to the intellectual society that is the College.

Professor Lucia Reisch has been appointed as the inaugural El-Erian Professor of Behavioural Economics & Policy at the Department of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) in the University of Cambridge.

She will lead the recently-funded El-Erian Institute, which aims to help transform approaches to economic research, exerting a significant influence on the formation and implementation of economic policy.

Professor Reisch joins us from the Department of Management, Society and Communications at the Copenhagen Business School, where she is a Professor of consumer behaviour and consumer policy.

Her main research focus is on behavioural economics, behavioural public policy, sustainable consumption (in particular, energy, food and health, active mobility and fashion), intercultural consumer behaviour, consumers and digitization, as well as consumer policy.

Professor Mauro F. Guillén has been appointed the next Director of Cambridge Judge Business School and will take up a Professorial Fellowship at Queens’.

Professor Guillén has taught at the Wharton School since 1996 and was the Anthony L. Davis Director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management & International Studies from 2007-2019.

His current research deals with the internationalization of the firm, and with the impact of globalization on patterns of organization and on the diffusion of innovations and crises.

Dr Lauren Davies is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Geography.

She joins the College to assist with the teaching of Geography.

Her research interests include chronologies from the late Quaternary to the Anthropocene epochs; holocene atmospheric circulation and dispersal patterns of volcanic ash; and palaeo-climate and -environmental reconstructions, with a focus on Arctic regions.