New honorary doctors at The Faculty of Social Sciences
The Faculty of Social Sciences has appointed Erik Brylolfsson and Duncan Ross as honorary doctors.
Professor Erik Brynjolfsson, Professor Duncan Ross.
Erik Brynjolfsson is a leading authority on the economics of technology and AI. He is the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI), as well as Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab. A pioneering voice in the economics of information, Brynjolfsson was among the first to quantify IT’s impact on productivity and to highlight the importance of intangibles such as organizational capital. He is also a foremost scholar on how artificial intelligence affects workers and firms. At Stanford, he leads research on Transformative AI—systems that are set to reshape productivity, labor markets, and prosperity—developing frameworks to help ensure that this technological shift benefits people and society. His most influential works include the widely acclaimed books The Second Machine Age and Machine, Platform, Crowd, as well as a substantial body of highly cited academic articles.
Duncan Ross is Professor of Economic and Social History, Dean of Learning and Teaching and Deputy Head of the College of Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow. He was educated at Glasgow and the London School of Economics. His PhD and early research was on banking and financial history, with a focus on the UK and, later, the emergence of banking clubs and consortia in Europe. He has also written on Foreign Direct Investment in Scotland. He has published in, among others, Economic History Review, Business History and Financial History Review. He has contributed widely to professional societies, including the Association of Business Historians, the Business History Conference, the European Association of Banking and Financial History and the UK Council for Graduate Education. He is a past editor of Financial History Review. More recently, Duncan's career has focused on administrative roles, including Dean of Graduate Studies and Dean of Learning and Teaching at Glasgow. He is programme coordinator of the Global Markets, Local Creativities (GLOCAL) Erasmus Mundus programme, whose consortium includes Uppsala University, University of Barcelona, Gottingen University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Kyoto University and Los Andes University, Bogota.
More about Uppsala University's honorary doctorates
Honorary doctor, doctor honoris causa, is a title awarded to people who have made outstanding scientific contributions or otherwise promoted research at the university. It is always the faculties themselves that appoint honorary doctorates, not the rector or the university management in general.