Sir Richard Jolly (Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St George) is a leading development economist.

He was, for nearly a decade, the director of the Institute of Development Studies

Institute of Development Studies

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 (IDS) at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.

Education

After school at Brighton College

Brighton College

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, Jolly took his degree in economics from Cambridge University in 1956, and followed this with a PhD from Yale.

The International Institute of Social studies (ISS) awarded its Honorary Fellowship to him in 2007.

Other key posts

• Special consultant on North-South issues to the Secretary-General of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
• Member and rapporteur of the UN Committee on Development Planning.
• (1987 to 1996) chairman of the Society for International Development (SID) North/South Roundtable
• Senior Research Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center
• Co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project.
• Special adviser to the UNDP and participant in the development of the Human Development Reports.
• Deputy executive director for Programmes in UNICEF.

Key Publications

Development with a Human Face (1998)
Adjustment with a Human Face (1987)
The UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions: New Challenges for the Twenty-First Century (1995);
Disarmament and World Development (1984)
Planning Education for African Development (1969)

External Links

Profile at The International Institute of Social Studies

Interview with Richard Jolly