Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Oxford, and Policy Advisor to the Foreign Secretary in the UK’s newly merged Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Previously, he was Chief Economist of the Department of International Development (DFID).
His research concerns what keeps some people and countries poor: the failures of markets, governments and politics, mainly in Africa, and how to achieve change. Dull Disasters (OUP, 2016) focused on how to organise and finance responses to humanitarian crises.
