Paul Collier

Sir
Paul Collier
Collier at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2013
Born
Paul Collier

(1949-04-23) 23 April 1949 (age 75)[1]
NationalityBritish
Academic career
FieldDevelopment economics
InstitutionBlavatnik School of Government, International Growth Centre, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
Alma materUniversity of Oxford

Sir Paul Collier, CBE, FBA (born 23 April 1949) is a British development economist who serves as the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and co-Director of the International Growth Centre.[2] He is also a Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.[3]

He has served as a senior advisor to the Blair Commission for Africa and was the Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank between 1998 and 2003.[4]

He has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. In 2010 and 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine on its list of top global thinkers.[5][6]

From 2017-2018, Collier was the academic co-director of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth, and Development, and was a founding member of the International Growth Centre's Council on State Fragility.[4] [7]

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  2. ^ "Paul Collier". www.bsg.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Paul Collier". www.bsg.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Paul Collier". IGC. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  5. ^ https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/28/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,39#thinker56 December 2011 Foreign Policy
  6. ^ "Foreign Policy's Second Annual List of the 100 Top Global Thinkers | Foreign Policy". foreignpolicy.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2010.
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