Paul collier
Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. He is also Co-Director of the International Growth Centre and is currently a Professeur invité at Sciences Po. From 1998–2003 he took a five-year Public Service leave during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank. In 2008 Paul was awarded a CBE ‘for services to scholarship and development’. Paul is currently adviser to the Strategy and Policy Department of the International Monetary Fund, and he is an adviser to DfID. He has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural-resources rich societies. Recent books include The Bottom Billion (Oxford University Press, 2007) which in 2008 won the Lionel Gelber, Arthur Ross and Corine prizes and in May 2009 was the joint winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book prize; Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places (Vintage Books, 2009); and The Plundered Planet: How to reconcile prosperity with nature (Oxford University Press, 2010).
