Matthias Beck

Professor Matthias Beck, PhD (MIT) MArch MUP (Kansas) FRSA is chair in Public Sector Management and Subject Leader (Management) at the Queen's University Management School, Queen's University in Belfast. His main research interests are in the areas of Risk, State-Business relationships, and the Political Economy of Management more generally.

He has held lecturing posts in economics and economic history at the University of Glasgow and in economics at the University of St Andrews. He became Professor of Risk Management at Glasgow Caledonian University in 1999, and Professor of Public Sector Management at the University of York (UK)in 2005; before joining Queen's University in Belfast in 2011.