| Professor Clive Fraser |
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 Clive came to the Birmingham from Jamaica in 1960 to join his parents when he was about seven. The mythology in Jamaica was that when you got to England if you spat it would just freeze on the ground and that proved accurate. Before coming to the UK Clive had been in school classes with more than 40 pupils, and although the teacher worked in a dedicated way with limited resources he was far behind what he was capable of achieving. At school in Birmingham each year he made more and more progress culminating in him passing the 11+ and going to grammar school. By the end of the 2nd Year he had worked his way into the top stream and stayed there. Despite falling out with the school while in lower sixth form, Clive went on to pass the necessary three A’ Levels at Matthew Boulton College to do a degree course at Birmingham University. He had always wanted to be an economist. While studying, Clive was engaged in many community activities including local radio, Supplementary schools and work at the Afro Caribbean Millennium Centre. In his first two years at University Clive shared the undergraduate prize for the best exam performance in the Faculty, and won the Plender prize at the end of his degree for the best dissertation of that year. His first post in a Department for Economics was at the University of York. He went on to hold a research post at Warwick University before being appointed to the post of Professor of Economics and Head of Department at Leicester University, the first Black man to hold such a post anywhere in the UK. It is one of the largest departments in the University and Clive has been instrumental in building its rating so that it is now considered one of the top ten Economic departments in the country. Clive is able to engage in research projects looking at for example the role of the public sector in mixed economies. He is a member of the Royal Economic Society’s Working Party on ethnic and other representation in the UK economics profession, and a member of The Frantz Fanon Research Unit which is the UK’s only black-owned public policy think tank. |
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