As Senior Tutor, Max is responsible for the organisation and quality assurance of small group undergraduate teaching (“supervisions”) for students of his college; as College Lecturer in Economics, he is also intensely involved in teaching and mentoring undergraduates, as well as lecturing for the University both in the BA Economics course, in the M.St. in International Relations, and in ICE’s International Summer Programme and Global Scholar Programme
While the bulk of his Cambridge teaching is for undergraduate students - Monetary and International Macroeconomics, British Politics, and International Political Economy - throughout his career Max has been involved in graduate, management and professional development teaching, primarily through the Centre of International Studies, now absorbed within POLIS (Area Co-ordinator for European Economics, M.Phil. in Contemporary European Studies; and International Political Economy, M.St. in International Relations), and in collaboration with the Institute for Continuing Education (IBM International Summer Programme; Senior Officers courses), the Cambridge Programme for Industry (Marconi Industries MBA), and the Graduate School in Economics and International Relations of the Catholic University of Milan, Italy, where he was a Visiting Lecturer 1996-2009. Mr. Beber was also for a number of years an Associated Fellow of the International Economics Programme of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), London.
In his teaching, Max enjoys:
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making economic concepts and data accessible to non-specialists;
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introducing students to the unprecedented ease of access to quality factual information and commentary on current policy issues available on the web;
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demonstrating how the fundamental analytical concepts used by contemporary economists, often clothed in rather impenetrable jargon, can be more richly and easily understood by reference to the history of economic thought;
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drawing questions and observations from the audience, so as to make the best possible use of the wealth of relevant personal experiences and viewpoints which can be elicited from the typical cohort of mature/part-time students attending ICE’s courses and lectures.
