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Frances Anne Cairncross CBE (born
30 August 1944,
Otley,
England) is a British economist, journalist and academic.Cairncross read Modern
History at
St Anne's College,
Oxford, graduating in 1965, and holds an
MA in
Economics from
Brown University,
Rhode Island.
Cairncross became Rector of
Exeter College, Oxford in October 2004. Previously, she was on the staff of
The Economist for 20 years, most recently as management editor. Cairncross was on the staff of
The Guardian from 1973 to 1984, and before that spent periods on the financial staff of
The Times,
The Banker and
The Observer. Cairncross chaired the
Economic and Social Research Council between 2001 and 2007 and was President of the
British Association for the Advancement of Science (2005–06). She is a Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh and a Senior Fellow at the School of Public Policy,
UCLA.
Her latest book,
The Company of the Future, was published in 2002 by
Harvard Business School Press. In March 2003 Cairncross won the
Institute of Internal Auditors' annual award for business and management journalism. Cairncross is also the author of
The Death of Distance, a study of the economic and social effects of the global communications revolution, first published in 1997 and re-published in a completely new edition in 2001.
She is a non-executive director of Stramongate Ltd, and a regular presenter of
BBC Radio 4's
Analysis programme. In 2004-05, Cairncross held the honorary post of
High Sheriff of
Greater London.
Frances Cairncross is the daughter of the economist
Sir Alexander Kirkland Cairncross (a.k.a. Alec Cairncross) and the niece of
John Cairncross and is married to
Hamish McRae, an associate editor of
The Independent. Cairncross holds
honorary degrees from
Trinity College Dublin,
City University, and the Universities of
Glasgow,
Birmingham,
Bristol,
Cardiff,
Loughborough and
Kingston.
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