JUDITH CLIFTON Faculty of Economics and Business Science University of Cantabria Av. de los Castros S.N., Cantabria 39005, Spain, Phone: + 34 942201287 Fax: +34 942 201603 Email: judith.clifton@unican.es http://judithclifton.com/ and Department of City and Regional Planning/ Department of Policy Analysis and Management Sibley Hall, West Cornell University Ithaca, USA. KEYWORDS Global and International Public policy; Economic Policy; Privatization; Public Services; Utilities; Infrastructure: European Union; OECD; European Investment Bank; Latin America. EDUCATION DPhil: Political Economy, St. Antony s College, University of Oxford, September 1997 (Maximum result possible: Pass with minimal corrections) Masters in Contemporary International Studies, Institute of International Studies, University of Leeds, June 1993 (Maximum result possible: Distinction) Honours Degree in European Studies, University of Essex, June 1989 (Maximum result possible: First Class) PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Current positions Associate Professor, Applied Economics (Economic Policy), University of Cantabria, from September 2012 to present - Fulbright-Schuman Scholar, Cornell University, Fall 2014 - Affiliated Researcher, Centre for Citizenship, Identities, Governance, Open University, June 2011 to present - Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Economic Policy Reform January 2012-present (ISI-ranked in Planning and Development; Economics) - Representative for St. Antony s College in Spain, for St. Antony s College, Oxford, from 2010 onwards 1
- Representative for Spain on the Domain Individuals, Societies, Cultures and Health at COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) from 2011 to 2014. Previous positions Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Cantabria, 2007 to 2012 - Research Fellow European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, April to July 2007 Ramón y Cajal Senior Researcher, Department of Applied Economics, University of Oviedo, from 2005 to 2007. Highly competitively-awarded scholarship to avoid brain-drain from Spain Lecturer, Department of Applied Economics, University of Oviedo 2002 to 2005 - Associate Lecturer, Open University, (part-time) from 2001 to 2005 Lecturer, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds, 1998 to 2000 Visiting Researcher, Instituto Ortega y Gasset, Universidad Complutense, Madrid between October 1997 and June 1998. Awarded competitive grant from British Council DPhil Candidate, St. Antony s College, University of Oxford, 1993-1997 - Tutor, for undergraduate students of Philosophy, Politics and Economics and postgraduate students of the MPhil in Latin American Studies, University of Oxford, 1996-1997. - Research Fellow, El Colegio de México, September 1994 to August 1995. Recipient of the competitively-awarded grant from the Mexican Ministry of Science and Technology. Also recipient of British Council Scholarship declined as incompatible MAJOR PUBLICATIONS, LAST TEN YEARS Papers (Only peer-reviewed in international journals) Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. (Major Revision): Regulating public infrastructure services in the European Union: Challenges for territorial cohesion policies" Major revision at top journal on regional science. Alonso, J., Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D. The impact of New Public Management on efficiency: an analysis of Madrid's hospitals. Minor revision at top international journal on health policy. Clifton, J. (2014) Beyond Hollowing Out: Straitjacketing the state The Political Quarterly, accepted, forthcoming. 2
Warner, M., and Clifton, J. (2014): Marketization, Public Services and the City: The Potential for Polanyian Counter Movements, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, doi:10.1093/cjres/rst028 Clifton, J, and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (Forthcoming, 2014): Is the OECD ready for China? Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. Accepted April 2014, in production. 15pp. Clifton, J, and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2014): On the limits of policy transfer: The OECD and The Rest, Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2013.877674 Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, F. and Lanthier, P. (2014) Editorial: Utility Policy and development since Bretton Woods: The role of Multinationals, governments and International Financial Institutions, Utilities Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2014.03.010, online first Clifton, J, Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Revuelta (2014): Financing utilities: How the role of the European Investment Bank shifted from regional development to making markets, Utilities Policy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jup.2013.10.004 Clifton, J, Díaz-Fuentes, D. and Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. (2014): The impact of socioeconomic background on satisfaction: evidence for policy-makers, Journal of Regulatory Economics, 10.1007/s11149-014-9251-1, online first Alonso, J. M., Clifton, J. & Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2013): Did New Public Management matter? An empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size, Public Management Review. DOI:10.1080/14719037.2013.822532 Alonso, J. M., Clifton, J., D. Díaz-Fuentes, M. Fernández and J. Revuelta (2013): The race for international markets: Were privatized telecommunications incumbents more successful than their public counterparts? International Review of Applied Economics, 27(3), 215-235 Clifton, J., and Díaz Fuentes, D. (2013): The regulation of water services in the EU. The European Union s Concessions Directive: A Critical Reading, INTERECONOMICS Review of European Economic Policy, 48(3) Clifton, J. and Lanthier, P. (Guest Editors) (2013) Regulation and Investment in Infrastructure, Entreprises et Histoire, No. 70. Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández, M. & Revuelta, J. (2012): Territorial differences in access to Services of General Economic Interest. Evaluation of regulatory policies from a regional perspective, Investigaciones Regionales, 22, 165-177 Clifton, J. and D. Díaz-Fuentes, (2011): From club of the rich to globalization a la carte: Evaluating Reform at the OECD, Global Policy 2(3):300 311. 3
Clifton, J. and D. Díaz-Fuentes, (2011), Editorial: The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development 1961-2011: Challenges for the Next fifty years Global Policy 2(3), 297 299. Clifton, J. and D. Díaz-Fuentes, (2011) The OECD and the Phases in International Political Economy of the OECD: 1961-2011, Review of International Political Economy, 18(5) 552-569. Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2011): From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization, Business History, 5(3):761-781. Clifton, J., D. Diaz Fuentes (2011): The New Political Economy of the OECD in a context of shifting world wealth: Challenges and Opportunities for Global Economic Governance, Revista de Economía Mundial, 28, 113-42. Clifton, J., Lanthier, P. and Schröter, H., (2011): Regulating and deregulating the public utilities 1830 2010 Business History, 5 (3) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00076791.2011.599592 Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández, M. and Revuelta, J., (2011): Is Market- Oriented Reform producing a Two Track Europe? Cases from Electricity and Telecommunications, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 82(4), 495 513. Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández, M., and Revuelta, J., (2011). Los ciudadanos ante la regulación europea de servicios públicos/ Citizens, Public Services and European Regulation. CIRIEC: Revista de Economía Pública, Social y Cooperativa 79, 5-31. Clifton, J. Díaz-Fuentes, D., and Revuelta, J., (2010): The Political Economy of Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the Single Market, Journal of European Public Policy. 17(7), 988-1006. Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2010): Evaluating European Union policies on public services: A citizens perspective, Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 81(2), 281 311. Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D., (2008): The New Public Service Transnationals: consequences for labour, Work Organization, Labour and Globalization. Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2006): Privatization in the European Union: Pragmatic, Ideological, Inevitable? Journal of European Public Policy, 13(5), 736-756. Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2006): Las politicas de privatización de la Unión Europea: La vía británica o la senda europea?. Revista de Economía Mundial/Review of World Economy. 15, 121-153. Clifton, Judith Political Science in Spain what hope for young professionals? European Political Science, ISSN 16804333, 2006, pp 235-44. 4
Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2005), Empowering Europe s Citizens? On the prospects for a Charter for Services of General Interest. Public Management Review 7(3), 417-443 Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2004), Nationalisation, denationalisation and European integration: changing contexts, unfinished debates. Enterprises et Histoire 37(3), 24-52. Books Clifton, J., P. Lanthier and H. Schröter (Editors) (2013) The Economic and Social Regulation of Public Utilities: An International History, Routledge. Clifton, J., F., Comín and D., Díaz-Fuentes, (Editors) (2007) Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North America: Transnationalisation, Networks and Integration, Palgrave: London/New York, 2007. Clifton, J., Comín, F., Díaz-Fuentes, D. et al. (Editors) (2005), Redes de Empresas en España: perspectiva teórica, histórica y global, Lid: Madrid, ISBN, 84 88717571. Clifton, J., Comín, F., and Díaz-Fuentes, D., (2003) Privatization in the European Union: Public enterprises and integration, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht. Book Chapters Alonso, J., Clifton, J. and Diaz-Fuentes, D, (in press, forthcoming 2015). The Spanish National Agency for the Evaluation of Public Policies and Quality of Services. In Organizing for Coordination in the Public Sector. Practices and Lessons from 12 European Countries. Palgrave. Alonso, J., Clifton, J., and Diaz-Fuentes, D, (in press, forthcoming 2015). Public management reform in Southern Europe: Spain. In (ed) Steven Van Walle and Gerhard Hammerschid, Public Administration Reforms in Europe: The View from the Top. Edward Elgar. Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (in press, forthcoming 2015): From club of the rich to globalization a la carte: Evaluating Reform at the OECD, Permission to re-use from Wiley Publishers, in Rising Powers and Multilateral Institutions, edited by Dries Lesage and Thijs Van de Graaf, Palgrave. Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., and Revuelta, J. (in press, forthcoming 2014): How Policies shape Foreign Direct Investment: Understanding the dynamics of flows from Latin America to the European Union. In (ed) A. Nolke, Multinational Corporations from Emerging Countries. State Capitalism 3.0. Palgrave, Macmillan. Clifton, J., Lanthier, P. and Schröter, H. (2013): The economic and social regulation of utilities. In Clifton, J. et al. (eds) The Economic and Social Regulation of Utilities. Routledge. 5
Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2013): From national monopoly to multinational corporation: How regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization. In Clifton, J. et al. (eds) The Economic and Social Regulation of Utilities. Routledge. Clifton, J., and Díaz Fuentes, D. (2013): Inward FDI in Spain and its policy context, Inward and Outward FDI Country Profiles, edited by K. Sauvant, P. Mallampally and G. McAllister, Vale Columbia Centre-Harvard Law School-The Earth Institute, Columbia University. Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2011): From national monopoly to multinational corporation: How regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization. In Clifton, J. et al. (eds) The Economic and Social Regulation of Utilities. Routledge. Clifton, J.; Díaz-Fuentes, D.; Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. and Revuelta, J. (2011): La evaluación de la protección de los consumidores a partir de herramientas económicas. Aplicación al caso de los Servicios Económicos de Interés General (SEIG). In Tomillo, J. and Álvarez, J. (Editors): La Protección Jurídica de los Consumidores como Motor de Desarrollo Económico, pp. 39-64, Thomson Reuters. Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. and Revuelta, J., (2011): Regulating Public Services: A Citizen Perspective in (ed.) P. Bance et al., Renewal of Public Intervention in the Contemporary Crisis, Edward Elgar. Clifton, J., Díaz-Fuentes, D., Fernández-Gutiérrez, M. and Revuelta, J. (2011): "Infrastructure regulation: What works, why, and how do we know? Lessons from Europe, Infrastructure regulation: What works, why, and how do we know? Lessons from Asian and Beyond, M. Ramesh, D. Jarvis, W. Xun and E. Aral (eds.), World Scientific Publishing. Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2010): The European Union, Southern Multinationals and the question of the Strategic Industries, The Emergence of Southern Multinationals, Brennan, Louis (ed.) Palgrave Macmillan. Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2010): Is the European Union ready for FDI from Emerging Markets? Foreign Direct Investment from Emerging Markets: The Challenges Ahead, Karl Sauvant with W. Maschek and Geraldine. McAllister (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan: London/New York. ISBN: 9780230100213. Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2009): Los mundos cambiantes de los servicios públicos: consecuencias para el trabajo in Ana Guillén et al., Calidad del Trabajo en la Unión Europea: Concepto, tensiones, dimensiones, Civitas: Madrid, ISSN: 9788447031368. Clifton, J. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2009): Changing World of Public Services. Consequences for the Organisation of Work, Quality of Work in the European Union Concept, Data and Debates from a Transnational Perspective. Guillén, Ana and Dahl, Sven (eds.), Peter Lang: Berlin. ISBN 9789052015774. 6
Clifton, J., Comín, F: and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2008): The rise of the new public service transnationals in Europe. In Schröter, H. (ed.) The European Enterprise, Springer- Verlag. ISBN: 9783540740360. Clifton, J., and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2008): Substantial contribution to chapters two and three of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development World Investment Report 2008, UNCTAD: Geneva, Switzerland. Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2007): Transforming Network services in Europe and the Americas: From Ugly Ducklings to Swans? In Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North America: Transnationalisation, Networks and Integration, Palgrave: London/New York, pp. 3-15. Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2007): Transforming Network services in Spain. In (eds) J. Clifton, F. Comín and D. Díaz-Fuentes, Transforming public enterprise in Europe and North America: Transnationalisation, Networks and Integration, Palgrave: London/New York, pp. 90-115. Clifton, J., Daniel Díaz-Fuentes and Carlos Marichal (2007): Taking Control: Transforming Telecommunications in Mexico. In (eds) J. Clifton, F. Comín and D. Díaz-Fuentes, Tranforming Public Enterprise in Europe and the Americas: Networks, Integration and Transnationalisation, Palgrave: London/New York, pp. 172-90. Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2007): Towards Understanding Network Service Transnationalisation in (eds) J. Clifton, F. Comín and D. Díaz-Fuentes, Tranforming Public Enterprise in Europe and the Americas: Networks, Integration and Transnationalisation, Palgrave: London/New York, pp. 221-32. Clifton, J., Comín, F. and Díaz-Fuentes, D. (2006): La internacionalización dual de las empresas públicas industriales y de servicios públicos desde la transición política y económica española en Julio Tascón, La Inversión Extranjera en España, Minerva: Madrid. ISBN: 9788488123688, pp. 223-46. RESEARCH GRANTS AND MANAGEMENT (Only major, competitive grants included) Ongoing Addressing the Public Infrastructure Crisis: Comparative US and European Perspectives Luigi Einaudi Chair Innovation Grant. Team includes Mildred Warner and Rick Geddes (Cornell University) and Judith Clifton (University of Cantabria). Fall 2014. Coordinating for Cohesion in the Public Sector of the Future COCOPS, Framework Programme 7, 2011-2014. (2.7 million euro) http://www.cocops.eu/ Joint Principal Researcher for Spain. COCOPS represents the largest ever project on public management funded by the EU. 7
The Emergence of Southern Multinationals and their Impact on Europe. Financed European Cooperation in Science and Technology Project: IS0905 ISCH IE 281/09. 2010-2014 http://www.cost.eu/domains_actions/isch/actions/is0905 Completed The History of European Infrastructure Finance, European Investment Bank - University Research Action 1.2011-1.2014, http://www.eib.org/about/news/three-neweiburs-sponsorships-within-eib-universities-research-action.htm Co-Principal Researcher for Spain Reconciling Work and Welfare in Europe. Network of Excellence (RECWOWE), Framework Programme 6, http://recwowe.vitamib.com/, Research Team Member, 2006-2011 The Policies of FDI in Public Service Networks in the EU financed by MICINN (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation) Plan of Research and Development R&D Economics ECO2008-06243. Principal Researcher, 2009-2011 The internationalisation of public enterprises in Europe: regulation, integration, citizenship politics and social cohesion. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology Plan of Research and Development. Research Team Member, 2005-2008 European Peripheries, European Union- Socrates Intensives Programme, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence University of Tampere, University of Joenssu, University of Tallin, University of Pecs and PMAS Bucharest, Research Team Member, 2005-2008 Beyond Privatization: Integration, transnationalisation and regulation of public services. Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology Plan of Research and Development. Research Team Member, 2002-2005 Investing in Southern Europe: Technological and Financial Investment Decisions by manufacturing firms European Union DG XII R&D, United Nations University. 2 million euros. Research Team Member, 1997-2001 TEACHING Current The Economics of Public Services and Innovation, Master in Economic Instruments and Analysis (Universities of Cantabria, Oviedo and Basque Country, recognized as Excellent Quality by the Spanish Government). Student profile includes international students with a social science background. 8
International Business: A European Perspective. Diploma in Economic and Business Studies. Students have a fully international profile, with backgrounds from history to engineering. Corporate Communication. Master in International Trade, Transport and Communication. Students are mature, working professionals from around the world. European Economic Policy (in English). Degree in Economics. Students are generally Spanish and Erasmus. International Economic Organization (in Spanish). Open to students from Economics and Business Studies. Students are generally Spanish and Erasmus. European Economic Integration (in Spanish). Open to students from Economics and Business Studies. Students are generally Spanish and Erasmus. Previous select examples, last ten years Globalization, European Integration and Public Policy Master in Economics and Sociology of Globalization, University of Oviedo. International students with social science backgrounds. European Social Policy Master in Social Science, Open University. Huge diverse student body, taught using open and distance techniques. Human Resource Management, Degree in Business Studies, University of Oviedo. Student profile mostly professionals. Consumer Behaviour, Degree in Business Studies, University of Oviedo. Student profile mostly Spanish and Europeans. PhD Supervision The Public Sector of the Future: A quantitative and qualitative analysis of efficiency, equity and social cohesion in Europe, PhD candidate José Manuel Alonso (2010 - in progress, University of Cantabria). Infrastructure Policy and European Integration, PhD Candidate: Ana Lara Gómez (2012-in progress University of Cantabria). Outstanding and Innovative Teaching *Student satisfaction with my teaching in English and Spanish is always significantly above average at the departmental and university levels. I include 2013 results below to illustrate. 9
Best Lecturer. Awarded by the student union association for my lecturing (in Spanish language), 2011. Designed innovative online MIT-OCW course at http://ocw.unican.es/ciencias-socialesy-juridicas/economia-de-los-servicios-publicos-e-innovacion PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS Consultant, United Nations, Public Enterprise Multinationals, 2013 Consultant, OECD, Size of Public Sector, Paris, 2012 Consultant, United Nations World Investment Report/UNCTAD Academic Network 2010 Consultant, United Nations World Investment Report, 2008 Accredited Professor (Spanish Habilitation) Social Science (2008); Economics (2012). Best Paper on Latin America: Society for Latin American Studies, 1998. WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS & SUMMER SCHOOLS Congress organization. Co-organised the World Economy Meeting in Santander July 2012. We received 400 delegates from around the world. Panel organization. I have run at least ten panels at international congresses, including the World Economic History Congress, International Studies Association, International Political Science Congress, etc. Congress papers. I have participated in approximately 100 conferences and congresses, delivering papers. MEMBERSHIP AND ACTIVITIES IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Elected Board Member of the University Association for European Studies Association (UACES) 2006-2011 http://www.uaces.org/ Editorial Board Member, CIRIEC Revista de Economía pública, social y cooperativa, http://www.ciriec-revistaeconomia.es/ Classified as excellent by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. 10