Paul Collier
| Sir Paul Collier CBE |
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Collier at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2013
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| Born | 25 April 1949 |
| Nationality | British |
| Institution | International Growth Centre, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford |
| Field | Development economics |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
Sir Paul Collier, CBE (born 23 April 1949) is professor of economics and public policy in the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford.
He is also a director of the International Growth Centre, the director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, and a fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.
From 1998 until 2003 he was the director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank. In 2010 and 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers. Collier currently serves on the advisory board of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP).
Collier is a specialist in the political, economic and developmental predicaments of poor countries. He was brought up in Sheffield where he attended King Edward VII School. He holds a Distinction Award from the University of Oxford, and in 1988 he was awarded the Edgar Graham Book Prize for the co-written Labour and poverty in rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and rural development in the United Republic of Tanzania.
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (), has been compared to Jeffrey Sachs's The End of Poverty and William Easterly's The White Man's Burden, two influential books, which like Collier's book, discuss the pros and cons of development aid to developing countries.
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