Catherine Waddams

Waddams was born on 12 July 1948 in Lambeth, London, England.[1] Her parents were Herbert Waddams, an Anglican priest and theologian, and Margaret Waddams (née Burgess).[1] She was educated at Simon Langton Grammar School for Girls, a state grammar school in Canterbury, Kent.[1] She then studied mathematics and economics at the University of Nottingham, graduating with an upper second class Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in 1969.[2] She remained at Nottingham to undertake postgraduate research in economics, and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree in 1973.[1] Her doctoral thesis was titled Marginal Cost Pricing in the Gas Industry.[2]

From 1969 to 1972, during her doctorate, Waddams was a research assistant to J E Mitchell at the University of Nottingham.[2] She was then a lecturer in economics at Lanchester Polytechnic between 1972 and 1973, and at Leicester Polytechnic in 1974.[1] In 1979, she joined the University of Leicester as a lecturer in economics; she was later promoted there to senior lecturer.[1][2] From 1989 to 1994, she also served at Leicester as Dean of Social Sciences.[2] In 1993, she was a visiting fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge and the Department of Applied Economics at the University of Cambridge.[1]

In 1995, Waddams joined the University of Warwick as a professor of the Warwick Business School and the first Director of its Centre for Management under Regulation.[3] From January to June 1999, she was a visiting academic at the Centre for Industrial Economics of the University of Copenhagen.[2] In 2000, she moved to the Norwich Business School of the University of East Anglia, where she had been appointed Professor of Regulation.[1][3] From 2000 to 2011, she also served as the first director of the Centre of Competition and Regulation (later renamed Centre for Competition Policy).[3]

From 1970 to 1992, Waddams was married to F. Christopher Price. They had two children together, a son and a daughter, before divorcing. In 1994, she married Morten Hviid.[1]

Waddams is an Anglican Christian.[1] She is a Reader (a licensed lay minister) in the Diocese of Norwich, and has served at St George's Church, Colegate, Norwich since 2014.[1][5]

• Price, Catherine M. (1977). Welfare Economics in Theory and Practice. London: Macmillan Press. ISBN 978-0333191224.
• Jackson, Peter M.; Price, Catherine M., eds. (1994). Privatisation and Regulation: A Review of the Issues. London: Longman. ISBN 978-0582009745.
• Ugaz, Cecilia; Price, Catherine Waddams, eds. (2003). Utility Privatization and Regulation: A Fair Deal for Consumers?. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishers. ISBN 978-1843762027.