Sir Paul Collier

Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University

Sir Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University. He is also the Oxford Academic Director of the International Growth Centre, a collaboration between the LSE and Oxford Universities. Paul is also a member of the Natural Resource Governance Institute Board and his work on the management of natural resources includes the book The Plundered Planet: How to reconcile prosperity with nature; he also co-edited a companion book, Plundered Nations?  

In The Future of Capitalism: facing the new anxieties, (2017), and Greed is Dead, (2020), co-authored with Professor Sir John Kay, he attacked the misdirection of public policy and private business that has caused avoidable polarisation and the decline of poor regions. 

He advises local and national governments on practical ways of regional renewal. His book, The Future of the Left Behind, (published in Britain, the USA and Germany), draws on global examples of success. 

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