Ailsa McKay was a Scottish economist, government policy adviser, a leading feminist economist and Professor of Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University.
23 Facts About Ailsa McKay
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Ailsa McKay was noted for her research on gender inequalities and the economics of the welfare state, for her contributions to feminist economics, as a leading proponent of the universal basic income concept and as one of the UK's foremost experts on gender budgeting.
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Ailsa McKay served as Vice Dean of the Glasgow School for Business and Society, and was well known for her support of Scottish independence and as a key adviser to the Scottish government and First Minister Alex Salmond on economic and welfare state policies.
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Ailsa McKay is highlighted as a leading intellectual figure in the campaign for independence in Alex Salmond's 2015 book The Dream Shall Never Die.
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Ailsa McKay was a member of the board of directors of the left-wing Jimmy Reid Foundation think tank, and was an adviser to the United Nations.
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Ailsa McKay held a 1st class BA Hons from the University of Stirling and a PhD from the University of Nottingham.
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Ailsa McKay joined Glasgow Caledonian University as a lecturer in economics in 1991.
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Ailsa McKay later became head of department for economics and international business and Vice Dean of the Glasgow School for Business and Society.
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Ailsa McKay was Reader in Gender and Economics until her 2011 appointment as Professor of Economics.
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Ailsa McKay's research focused on gender inequalities and the economics of the welfare state, and she served as a consultant to the Scottish Parliament, the Irish Government, Ailsa McKay's Majesty's Treasury, and the United Nations Development Programme.
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Ailsa McKay was a leading authority on gender budget analysis in the United Kingdom.
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Ailsa McKay was a business commentator for The Herald newspaper.
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Ailsa McKay was a founding member of the Scottish Women's Budget Group, a founding member of the European Gender Budget Network, a board member of the Jimmy Reid Foundation and chairperson of the European chapter of the International Association for Feminist Economics.
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Ailsa McKay was noted as a proponent of Scottish independence and a citizens' basic income.
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Ailsa McKay was a contributor to the Jimmy Reid Foundation's Common Weal reports, including a report on welfare which was published after her death.
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Ailsa McKay was a noted and early proponent of the universal basic income concept from a feminist and gender equality perspective.
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Ailsa McKay died aged 50 on the morning of 5 March 2014, following a year-long battle with cancer.
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Professor Ailsa McKay will be missed by so many, but a scholarship founded in her name by the University she loved will inspire future generations of young, similarly feisty scholars to debate and to act for social change.
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Ailsa McKay was a founding member of the Scottish Women's Budget Group, which was founded around her kitchen table, later growing into an influential voice listened to by successive Scottish finance ministers and by others.
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Ailsa McKay was incessantly campaigning for including gender into economic models and analyses, as well as for welfare reform, properly funded free universal childcare, and a citizen's basic income for all.
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Ailsa McKay is highlighted as a leading intellectual figure in the campaign for Scottish independence in Alex Salmond's 2015 book The Dream Shall Never Die.
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Ailsa McKay was married to fellow economist Jim Campbell and had two children.
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The Ailsa McKay Lecture is the foremost honour in feminist economics, and has been delivered by:.