I am also a Co-Director of the Voting Power and Procedures (VPP) programme and an external Associate Member of the Centre for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science at LSE.

Department of Economics
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
England, UK.

Office: S2.116
Email: d.leech(at)warwick.ac.uk

Tel. +44-(0)2476-523047
Fax +44-(0)2476-523032

Office hours for students during the Autumn term:

Mondays 12-1pm

Wednesdays 12-1pm

Thursdays 11-12pm

Fridays 12-1pm

Administrative responsibilities in 2009-10:
Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) Course Director, Economics Convener and Admissions Tutor

My teaching:

EC122 Statistical Techniques A (Spring Term)

EC123 Mathematical Techniques B (Autumn Term)

EC228 Public Choice and Voting Theory (Spring Term)

Links:

My Research Interests 

Voting Power and Procedures Programme, CPNSS, LSE

Computer Algorithms for Voting Power Analysis

Recent activities:

• Paper: Power indices in large voting bodies, presented at the universities of Nizhny Novgorod, September 2009, and Warwick, October 2009.
  
  
• Working Paper: Reforming IMF and World Bank governance : in search of simplicity, transparency and democratic legitimacy in the voting rules (with Robert Leech) Paper presented at the universities of Augsbourg, June 2009, and Moscow, September 2009.
  
  
• Paper:A Behavioural Power Index (with Serguei Kaniovski) (published in Public Choice, vol. 141(1), pages 17-29, October 2009)
  

• Public Lecture "Reforming the Voting Systems of the IMF/World Bank" November 20th 2008 London School of Economics  Powerpoint
  
  
• Open Letter on Qualified Majority Voting in the EU Council of Ministers: Scientists for a Democratic Europe
  
  
• Letter to The Guardian: How mathematicians lost the plot in the City Thursday 12 June 2008
  

• Paper: The Double Majority Voting Rule of the EU Reform Treaty as a Democratic Ideal for an Enlarging Union: an Appraisal Using Voting Power Analysis (with Haris Aziz)  in Marek Cichocki and Karol Zyczkowski (eds.) Distribution of power and voting procedures in the European Union, Ashgate, December 2009, ISBN:9780754694960.

Some links:

Center for Economics and Policy Research (Washington)

Paul Krugman

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Equality Trust

Public Choice Society

European Public Choice Society