New CEO at the Centre for Economic Policy Research

Hilary Beech has been appointed Chief Executive Officer at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR). Ms. Beech will take up her new post on July 15th 2002. She succeeds Stephen Yeo.

Ms. Beech was born in the UK and graduated from University College London with a 1st class honours degree in Electrical Engineering in 1983, before gaining a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984, and an MBA from Stanford University in 1991. After spending 10 years in senior marketing and engineering roles in Silicon Valley, Ms. Beech founded her own consulting business in 1995, providing strategic planning and marketing services to companies such as Cisco, Intuit and Sybase. 

Ms. Beech’s interest in economics developed while she was living in France in the mid 1990s, when she became very intrigued by discussion of the adoption of the Euro and issues of European regional integration. This led her to obtain a Masters in International Economics from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2000. Ms. Beech is fluent in French and is co-president of the Board of Alliance Française de Santa Cruz in California. She also hosts public affairs radio programmes for KUSP, the National Public Radio affiliate for the California Central Coast. Ms. Beech now looks forward to applying her knowledge of economics and her business skills to furthering CEPR's mission of supplying high-quality economic research in support of important policy analysis and debate in Europe.

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