Michael Edwin Beesley CBE (3 July 1924 – 24 September 1999) was a British industrial economist and briefly a Liberal Party politician.
He became a research associate at Birmingham University in April 1947.
In 1948 he undertook work on the economics side under the direction of Mr. Clive Williams for the Abercrombie-Jackson Town and Country Survey.
He then resumed work at the university, where he was a member of the junior staff.
[5] He was the Liberal candidate for Birmingham King's Norton at the 1950 general election.