Stuart Holland

Stuart Kingsley Holland (born 25 March 1940) is a British economist and former politician. As a Member of Parliament for the Labour Party, Holland represented the Vauxhall constituency in Lambeth, London, from 1979 to 1989, when he resigned his seat to take up a post at the European University Institute in Florence.

Holland has held teaching and research posts at the Universities of Oxford and of Sussex, the European University Institute and the Universities of Roskilde and of Coimbra; has authored over 180 articles, many of which are in referred journals, chapters in books and other papers and conference presentations; and authored, co-authored or edited over 15 books on economic theory and policy, international trade, economic integration, regional theory and policy, social policies, development economics and global governance. Holland is a visiting professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and a Senior Scholar of the Institute of Social and European Studies, Köszeg, Hungary.^[1]