Dr Rajiv Prabhakar
Dr Rajiv Prabhakar is a lecturer in personal finance at The Open University (UK) and a research fellow at the London School of Economics. He is author of The Assets Agenda (2008); Rethinking Public Services (2006); and Stakeholding and New Labour (2003) - all published by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Dr Prabhakar has conducted both theoretical and empirical work on asset-based welfare and the UK Child Trust Fund. He is currently undertaking an Economic and Social Research Council funded “knowledge transfer” project on The assets agenda: transferring knowledge on assets, financial education and wealth inequality. His doctorate on stakeholding won the Political Studies Association's Walter Bagehot prize for best UK dissertation on government and public administration.
Where: Level 5, The Treasury, 1 The Terrace
When: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Wednesday 2 June 2010
RSVP: Lyn Crossley by Friday 28 May 2010.