Dr John Skatun, Head of Economics, this week welcomed two new members of staff joining the Business School's Department of Economics.
Professor Keith Bender joins the University of Aberdeen Business School's Economics Department in early August 2012 from Milwaukee. Keith is a renowned expert in the economics of labour markets and a valuable addition to the Department of Economics and the Centre for European Labour Market Research.
Dr Yu Aoki will also be arriving this summer and is a joint appointment between the University of Aberdeen Business School's Economics Department and the University of Aberdeen's Health Economics Research Unit (HERU). This appointment strengthens the Department's expertise in health economics reserach and ties in with the launch of the new MSc Economics of Health programme which welcomes its first intake of students in September 2012.