Colin Thain, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Colin Thain

British political scientist

Date of Birth: 20-Jan-1959

Place of Birth: Bedlington, England, United Kingdom

Profession: political scientist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Colin Thain (born 20 January 1959) is professor of political science and a former head of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham.
Born in Bedlington, Northumberland, Thain received a BA in economics (1981) and Ph.D.
in government (1985) from the University of Manchester.
He was previously based at the University of Ulster.
Thain is currently also a visiting fellow at All Souls College and senior visiting research fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford.
In 1988, while he was a lecturer at the University of Exeter, Thain was awarded one of the first three Lloyd's Tercentenary Foundation Fellowships.His research interests lie in the area of economic policy making, with a particular focus on HM Treasury and the Bank of England.
His publications include an influential work in the study of the Treasury, The Treasury and Whitehall: The Planning and Control of Public Spending (co-authored with Maurice Wright, Clarendon Press, 1995), and he is currently working on a project on the evolution of the Treasury under the New Labour government, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.