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Robert U. Ayres
Biography
Professor Robert Ayres joined INSEAD in 1992, becoming the first Novartis (formerly Sandoz) Chair of Management and the Environment, a title he still holds as Emeritus. He was the founder of Center for the Management of Environmental Resources (CMER) which he directed from 1992 to 2000, when he retired. He remains an active member of INSEAD, producing numerous publications on topics ranging from Industrial Metabolisms and Industrial Ecology, through Environmental Policy and Technology Evaluation, Economic Growth and Environmental Regulation, Environmental Economics, to Eco-restructuring.
Bob Ayres holds a PhD in Mathematical Physics from Kings College, University of London, an MSc in Physics from the University of Maryland and a BA and BSc from the University of Chicago. He was an Adjunct Professor of Mineral Economics at Pennsylvania State University and a Visiting Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. His former positions include, among others, Professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon Un
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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Ayres, John
AYRES, JOHN (fl. 1680-1700), an eminent English penman, was of very humble origin, but the date and place of his birth are unknown. Coming up from the country a poor lad, he became footman to Mr. William Ashurst, alderman of London, then resident at Hornsey', who was knighted in 1689, and lord mayor of London in 1693-4. His master, taking a great liking to him, sent him to school, where he attained great efficiency in writing and arithmetic. He continued some years in Ashurst's service, but marrying a fellow-servant with 200l., he was enabled to set up as a teacher of writing and accounts in St. Paul's Churchyard, where his industry and ability soon procured him so many scholars that his income from teaching alone was nearly 800l. a year.
About 1680 he commenced the execution and publication of those calligraphic works which have made him so famous as one of the great reformers in the writing commonwealth, and the introducer into this country of the beautiful Italian hand. Robert More, in his essay on the
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Philip James Ayres
Australian biographer and literary historian (1944–2021)
Philip James AyresOAM (28 July 1944 – 15 August 2021)[1] was an Australian biographer and literary historian, described by High Court Justice Dyson Heydon as "one of the best biographers this country has ever produced".[2]
Education
Ayres was born in Lobethal, South Australia. He was of German and Anglo-Scottish cultural heritage. He attended Adelaide Boys High School and the University of Adelaide (PhD 1971). He taught at the University of Adelaide, Monash University (1972 to 2006), Vassar College and Boston University.[3]
Academic work
Ayres' biography subjects included Malcolm Fraser,[4]Douglas Mawson,[5] former Australian Chief Justice Sir Owen Dixon,[6] Sydney's late-19th-century, early-20th-century Catholic Archbishop Patrick Francis Moran[7] and Sir Ninian Stephen[8] (who had been Australia's Governor-General for most of the 1980s). His last book, a collection of biographical vignettes built aro
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