Name:   William Fred Lever

Date of Birth:   1943.

Nationality:   British

Address:   34 Kirkhouse Road, Blanefield, Glasgow, G63 9BX, U.K.

Email: billlever@btinternet. com

Experience:

2004- Emeritus Professor of Urban Studies and Senior Research Fellow. University of                        Glasgow, U.K.
1995- Professor of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, U.K..
2006- Knowledge Panel Member, Global Centers of Commerce Project, Mastercard.

Recent Publications:

2006.  The study of knowledge competitiveness in Europe.  In P.K.Kresl and Ni Pengfei (eds.) Competitiveness : Challenges to the World City Network, SSAP, Beijing.

2007.     The changing impact of globalisation on the competitiveness of European cities, in Y. Hedick-Wong, Global Centers of Commerce, Mastercard, New York