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The French economics professor, Jean Tirole, who was a keynote speaker at the FRIC’13 Conference last year, has won the Nobel prize for economics 2014

Despite the recent fall-out of finance, confidence in the market does not seem to be diminishing, but on the contrary, market mechanisms are becoming key instruments to deal with core contemporary collective concerns such as environmental pollution, security of supply of energy, quality of education, poverty and health care. On December 11 and 12 the Markets and Valuation Cluster hosts a workshop with a lineup of very remarkable scholars devoted to discuss the proliferation of markets that have been devised – not only to work economically – but also to solve key contemporary collective issues.

After a thorough appointment process and in agreement with the appointment committees, the two positions as Dean of Research and Dean of Education have been filled. Both deans are well-known to CBS.

In this month’s column by Senior Management, Peter Jonasson, University Director, writes about the potential in using evaluation as a learning tool in a more structured way in the administration. Not to judge – but to get better at what we do.