Contact Professor David Parker
- Email: david.parker@cranfield.ac.uk
Current activities
David is the UK Government's Official Historian of Privatisation and a Member of the Government's Regulatory Policy Committee. Formerly he was a Member of the UK Competition Commission and remains Emeritus Professor of Privatisation and Regulation at Cranfield.
David has considerable experience of privatisation and regulation internationally, dating back to the 1970s. He has undertaken consultancy and training on privatisation, regulation and competition policy in the UK, the Russian Federation, Trinidad, Germany, India, Taiwan, Malaysia, the Czech Republic, the Philippines, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Mexico, Cyprus, Germany, South Africa, Australia, Jamaica, Malawi, Ghana, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Jersey, Hungary, Thailand and Vietnam. In addition, he has published 13 books on privatisation or regulation and over 50 research papers and book chapters. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and the British Academy of Management.
Publications
Articles In Journals
Conference Papers
- Figueira C, Nellis J & Parker D. (2009). The effects of ownership on bank efficiency in Latin America
- Figueira C, Nellis J & Parker D. (2004). Are international financial markets integrating
- Figueira C, Nellis J & Parker D. (2004). The effects of private versus state and foreign versus domestic ownership on bank efficiency in Latin America
Books
- Figueira C & Parker D. (2011). Infrastructure Liberalization: Challenges to the new Economic Paradigm in the Context of Developing Countries In Finger M & Kuenneke RW (eds), International Handbook of Network Industries. Edward Elgar.
- Parker D & Figueira C. (2010). Ppps in developed and developing economies: What lessons can be learned? In Hodge G, Greve C & Boardman AE (eds), International Handbook on Public-Private Partnerships. Edward Elgar.
- Nellis J & Parker D. (2006). Principles of business economics (2nd ed.)
- Nellis J & Parker D. (2004). Principles of macroeconomics
- Nellis J & Parker D. (2002). Principles of business economics (1st ed.)