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This page recognises the achievements of current LSE students and staff who have won external UK or international awards for their achievements in 2005 and 2006. Our congratulations to them all.

Students

October 2006	Valentina Bruno and Sridhar Arcot - winneres of the GAM Gilbert de Botton Award in Finance Research 2006
June 2006	Rowland Manthorpe, MSc in Political Theory, Government Department - awarded The Ben Pimlott Prize for Political Writing 2006
November 2005	PuLSE fm team, winners of The Guardian 2005 student website of the year
October 2005	Lee Mager - Academic Achievement award from the University of London
	Jiang Chang and Yi Duan Ho - awarded bursaries by the Company of Actuaries Charitable Trust
September 2005	Dermot Hodson was awarded the 1st annual UACES Best PhD Thesis prize in September 2005 for his study of 'Economic Governance and the Dual Outcome in Euro Area Fiscal Policy 1999-2002' Emma Haddad was awarded the 8th annual BISA PhD Thesis Prize in December 2004 for her study of 'The Individual Between Sovereigns: The Refugee in International Society'.
May 2005	Sarineh Cherchian, Li Lynn Chin and Jennifer Yun Lui - Special prize L'Oreal Brainstorm award
	Rahul Savani and Ben Veal - winners of the PennLehman Automated Trading competition
April 2005	Hazel Mowbray - 'Real World UK Graduate of the Year' 2005
March 2005	Preeti Bhagnani, Sui-Jim Ho, Victoria Ho, Julian House and Richard Reynolds - first in the UK rounds of the 2005 Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court competition, winning the competition’s Fitzmaurice Cup
February 2005	Grazyna Kaymierska, John Osborn and Kris Ekelund- winners of the National Operational Research Society's May Hicks Prizes
January 2005	Chi Hieu Nguyen - AQA A level student of the Year 2005

Staff

March 2007	Odd Arne Westad - 2007 Arthur Ross Book Award
March 2006	Odd Arne Westad - 2006 Bancroft Prize
November 2005	Christine Chinkin - Goler T Butcher Medal 2006
	Larry Phillips - Frank P Ramsey Medal, the Decision Analysis Society of the Institute for Operational Research and Management Sciences.
October 2005	Christopher Pissarides - IZA Prize in Labor Economics 2005
September 2005	Tim Besley - Yrjö Jahnsson Award in Economics
July 2005	Nicola Lacey - shortlisted for the 2005 British Academy Book Prize
April 2005	Gerry Simpson - Certificate of Merit for Pre-Eminent Contribution to Creative Legal Scholarship by the American Society of International Law
February 2005	Robert Worcester, named Knight Commander of the British Empire (KGE)
January 2005	Anne Corbett - deputy chair of the British section of the Franco-British Council and visiting fellow at LSE, has been awarded the French state decoration for services to French culture - the Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
	Richard Layard - awarded the WW Leontief Medal for contributions to progress in economics by the Russian Academy of Science.
	Professor Judith Anne Rees, Robert Arthur Pinker, and Christopher Board - awarded 2005 New Years Honours

Alumni

April 2006	Chew Shee Ghee - awarded Little Prize: first place in the world for a paper on taxation for having the highest marks in the world. Click here to access Malaysia Star article on the award
April 2005	Daron Acemoglu - 2005 John Bates Clark medal of the American Economics Association
January 2005	Shirley Lucas - awarded a CBE for services to broadcasting, New Years Honours 2005

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