Anton Muscatelli
Sir Vito Antonio Muscatelli (born 1 January 1962) is the Principal of the University of Glasgow and one of the United Kingdom's top economists. Early life Anton Muscatelli was born on 1 January 1962 in Bari, Italy to Ambrogio and Rosellina Muscatelli. He lived in Mola di Bari in his early years. His father, who was head of a shipping company, relocated the family to Glasgow from the Netherlands. Anton was educated at The High School of Glasgow and the University of Glasgow, where he graduated M.A. (Hons) in Political Economy (1984) and took a PhD in Economics (1989). He was a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Professor at the University of Glasgow from 1984 to 1994, and Daniel Jack Professor of Political Economy from 1994 until 2007. He was Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, 2000 to 2004, and Vice-Principal (Strategy, Budgeting and Advancement) from 2004 until 2007. Career 1980–84 - MA (Hons) Political Economy, University of Glasgow. 1984–87 - PhD Political Economy, University of Glasgow. 1984–90 - Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy, University of Glasgow. 1990–92 - Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Economy, University of Glasgow. 1992–94 - Professor in Economics, University of Glasgow 1994–2007 - Daniel Jack Professor of Political Economy, University of Glasgow. 1995–2000 - Head of the Department of Economics, University of Glasgow. 2000–2004 - Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow. 2004–07 - Vice-Principal (Strategy, Budgeting and Advancement), University of Glasgow. 2007–09 - Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Heriot Watt University. 2009–present - Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow. 2017–20 - Chair of the Russell Group. Muscatelli has been a consultant to the World Bank and the European Commission, and was a member of the Panel of Economic Advisers of the Secretary of State for Scotland from 1998 to 2000. From 2007-10, he was an adviser to the House of Commons Treasury Select Committee on monetary policy, and in 2008 he was appointed to chair an independent expert group for the Calman Commission on Devolution, set up by the Scottish Parliament and UK Government and led by the chancellor of the University of Glasgow, Sir Kenneth Calman. This included experts from the UK, Europe, and North America. The Muscatelli expert group set out a number of principles which funding of devolved government in Scotland should follow. These were adopted by the Calman Commission and were embedded into the fiscal devolution provisions in the Scotland Act (2012). Following the Smith Commission reforms to fiscal devolution which led to the Scotland Act (2016), there was considerable debate and controversy around the adjustment to the block grant to Scotland from the UK exchequer. Muscatelli argued for the need to compromise between the Scottish and UK Government positions on how block grant adjustment should be formulated. A deal between the UK and Scottish Governments was announced on 23 February 2016. Between 2015-2021 he was a member of the Council of Economic Advisers of the First Minister of Scotland. In June 2016, following the