Professor Sir Paul Collier FBA
The economic development of Africa; the causes of state fragility and implications for public policy; the management of natural resources; the management of urbanization
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Economics and Economic History
Current post
Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Director, International Growth Centre
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Bruce Campbell FBA
The economic history of late-medieval Britain and Ireland, with particular reference to human-environment interactions during the 14th century and trends in agricultural output and productivity from the 13th to 19th centuries
Professor Esther Duflo FBA
The economic lives of households in poor countries: how they make decisions, what constraints they face, and how this should influence the design of policy; and the at-scale evaluation of such policies, mainly using randomized field experiments
Dr Margaret Meyer FBA
Microeconomic theory: economics of information, incentives, and organisations; industrial organisation; information transmission; stochastic orderings
