Douglas Hague

Sir Douglas Chalmers Hague CBE (20 October 1926 – 1 February 2015) was a British economist who was a close associate of Margaret Thatcher.

He moved to be the Newton Chambers Professor of Economics at the University of Sheffield at the young age of 30, 1957–63.

Whilst at Sheffield, Hague also spent a year as visiting professor at Duke University, North Carolina, from 1960-61.

With Norman Strauss he set up a strategic leadership programme at Templeton College, Oxford, and taught there from 1982 to 1997.

Hague was appointed CBE in 1978[1] and knighted in the 1982 New Year Honours "for Political and Public Service.