Paul Collier — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (since 2012).
Co-director of the International Growth Centre.
Served as Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank (1998-2003).
Authored books including 'The Bottom Billion' (2007), 'The Plundered Planet' (2010), and 'The Future of Capitalism' (2018).
Named by Foreign Policy magazine on its list of top global thinkers (2010, 2011).
Founder of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford, serving as its director from 1989 to 2014.
Holds a D.Phil from the University of Oxford.

Biography

Sir Paul Collier is a distinguished British development economist and academic. He currently serves as the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford, a position he has held since 2012. He is also the co-director of the International Growth Centre and a Professeur invité at Sciences Po, as well as a Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.

Collier's career includes significant roles in international development.