Previous Employment

Prior to working there he was employed as a Senior Policy Adviser on Trade and Development at the Department for International Development (DFID)

Department for International Development

The Department For International Development is a United Kingdom government department with a Cabinet Minister in charge. It was separated from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1997. The goal of the department is "to promote sustainable development and eliminate world poverty". The current...

. He was responsible for looking at trade in goods. His post at DFID was originally a secondment from CAFOD

CAFOD

The Catholic Agency For Overseas Development, previously known as the Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, is a United Kingdom-based international aid agency working to alleviate poverty and suffering in developing. It is funded by the Catholic community in England and Wales, the UK government...

. At CAFOD he had been their trade and globalization Policy Analyst. He has also been Head of Research and Engagement at the Just Pensions project, a member of an advisory board member to the Globalisation and Poverty Programme (www.gapresearch.org) and a board member of the Ethical Trading Initiative

Ethical Trading Initiative

The Ethical Trading Initiative is an alliance of companies, trade unions and voluntary organisations working in partnership to improve the working lives of people across the globe who make or grow consumer goods....

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Publications

He has authored many books and articles including:

• (2003) Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in Latin America (2003)

• (1997) Faces of Latin America

• (2004) Rethinking Tropical Agricultural Commodities (with Ian Gillson and others, DFID);

• (2004) Fostering Pro-sustainable Development Agriculture Trade Reform: Strategic Options Facing Developing Countries (with Jamie Morrison, ICTSD)

• (2003)The Northern WTO Agenda on Investment: Do as we say, not as we did (with Ha Joon Chang, South Centre/CAFOD, June)

• (2002)Dumping on the Poor: The Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development (with Matthew Griffith, CAFOD, September)

• (2001)Capital Punishment: Making International Finance Work for the World's Poor (CAFOD, September).