Richard Jolly
| Richard Jolly | |
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| Executive Director of UNICEF Acting |
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In office 28 January 1995 – 1 May 1995 |
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| Secretary General | Boutros Boutros-Ghali |
| Preceded by | Jim Grant |
| Succeeded by | Carol Bellamy |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
30 June 1934 Hove, England, UK |
| Spouse(s) | Alison Bishop (1963–2014) |
| Education |
Magdalene College, Cambridge (BA) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
Sir Arthur Richard Jolly KCMG (born 30 June 1934), is a leading development economist who was named one of the fifty key thinkers globally in this field of economics.
Jolly currently serves as Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex focusing on issues of world development and the role of the UN in global governance. From 1982-2000 he was an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, first as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and from 1996 as Coordinator of the UNDP’s Human Development Report. He co-authored the influential book Adjustment with a human face: protecting the vulnerable and promoting growth.
The son of Arthur Jolly, a chartered accountant, by his wife Flora née Leaver, a commissioner for the Girl Guides, he attended Brighton College before going up to Magdalene College, Cambridge. Jolly graduated with first-class honours in Economics in 1956, before pursuing postgraduate studies at Yale University, receiving a PhD in 1962.
Jolly was appointed Research Fellow at the East Africa Institute of Social Research in 1963, advising on manpower to the Government of Zambia (1964–66), and Research Officer in Applied Economics at Cambridge University (1964–68).
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