[2] Scott, originally from Northern Ireland, was a political economy lecturer at the University of St Andrews when appointed, and an authority on Adam Smith.
Originally from Northern Ireland, Wilson had studied at Queen's University Belfast and the London School of Economics, and worked during the War in the Ministries of Economic Warfare and Aircraft Production and the Prime Minister's Statistical Branch, being appointed an OBE in the 1945 Prime Minister's Resignation Honours.
In 1994, Andrew Skinner, the university's Daniel Jack Professor of Economics, was appointed to the Adam Smith Chair.
Skinner was a graduate of the university and served as dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences, Clerk of Senate and vice-principal, retiring in 2000.
He has been a consulatant and advisor to the IMF, the World Bank, the European Commission, the ECB and numerous other central banks, alongside his parallel work for many private sector financial institutions, and also public sector institutions, such as the UK's National Audit Office and the Planning Office of the Quatar government.
He has written pioneering papers on behavioural poverty traps and bounded rationality and on the strategic foundations of general equilibrium.
He has held several UKRI research grants, has supervised over 25 PhD students, served as a member of the ESRC Strategic Advisory Network.