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'''Sir Paul Collier''', {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CBE|FBA}} (born 23 April 1949) is a [[British people|British]] [[Development economics|development economist]] who serves as the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the [[Blavatnik School of Government]] at the University of Oxford and co-Director of the [[International Growth Centre]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Paul Collier |url=https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/paul-collier |access-date=2023-05-11 |website=www.bsg.ox.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> He is also a Professeur invité at [[Sciences Po]] and a Professorial Fellow of [[St Antony's College, Oxford]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/paul-collier|title=Paul Collier|website=www.bsg.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2019-03-29}}</ref>
'''Sir Paul Collier''', [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] (born 23 April 1949)<ref>{{Citation
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He has served as a senior advisor to the [[Blair Commission for Africa]] and was the Director of the Development Research Group at the [[World Bank]] between 1998 and 2003.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=https://www.theigc.org/person/paul-collier/|title=Paul Collier|website=IGC|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-03-29}}</ref>
==Career==
Collier is a specialist in the political, economic and developmental predicaments of poor countries.<ref name=economist>{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9581576 |title=How to help the poorest: Springing the traps |accessdate=7 August 2007 |format= |work=[[The Economist]] |date=2 August 2007}}</ref> He was brought up in [[Sheffield]] where he attended [[King Edward VII School (Sheffield)|King Edward VII School]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Ward |first=Nick |url=http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/It39s-hats-off-to-a.4326660.jp |title=It's hats off to a master of art! |publisher=The [[Sheffield Star]] |date= |accessdate=6 October 2009}}</ref> He holds a Distinction Award from the University of Oxford, and in 1988 he was awarded the ''Edgar Graham Book Prize'' for the co-written ''Labour and poverty in rural Tanzania: [[Ujamaa]] and rural development in the United Republic of Tanzania''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=2890|title=IUB Libraries: Edgar Graham Book Prize (African Studies)}}</ref>


He has written for the ''New York Times'', the ''Financial Times'', the ''Wall Street Journal'', and the ''Washington Post''. In 2010 and 2011, he was named by ''[[Foreign Policy]]'' magazine on its list of top global thinkers.<ref>https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/28/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,39#thinker56 December 2011 [[Foreign Policy]]</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Foreign Policy's Second Annual List of the 100 Top Global Thinkers {{!}} Foreign Policy |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201103531/http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/11/29/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,28 |archive-date=2010-12-01 |website=foreignpolicy.com}} </ref>
''[[The Bottom Billion]]: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It'' (ISBN 0195311450), has been compared<ref name=economist/> to [[Jeffrey Sachs]]'s ''[[The End of Poverty]]'' and [[William Easterly]]'s ''The White Man's Burden'', two influential books, which like Collier's book, discuss the pros and cons of [[developmental aid]] to developing countries.


From 2017-2018, Collier was the academic co-director of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth, and Development, and was a founding member of the International Growth Centre's Council on State Fragility.<ref name=":2" /> <ref name=":3" />
His 2010 book ''The Plundered Planet''<ref>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v465/n7298/full/465550a.html (3 June 2010) [[Nature (journal)|Nature]]</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/16/plundered-planet-paul-collier-book-review The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature by Paul Collier; How can the west stop poor nations being exploited for their natural wealth?] The Guardian</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/08/plundered-planet-paul-collier-review | location=London | work=[[The Guardian]] | title=The Plundered Planet: How to Reconcile Prosperity with Nature by Paul Collier | first=John | last=Vidal | date=8 May 2010}}</ref><ref>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/53359098-7a61-11df-9cd7-00144feabdc0.html , [[Financial Times]]</ref><ref>http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/329/5994/904 20 August 2010 in [[Science (journal)|Science]]</ref> is encapsulated in his formulas:
::Nature – Technology + Regulation = Starvation,
::Nature + Technology – Regulation = Plunder,
and Nature + Technology + Regulation (Good Governance) = Prosperity.


==Early life and education==
The book describes itself as an attempt at a middle way between the [[extremism]] of "Ostriches" ([[Denialism]], particularly [[climate change denial]]) and "Environmental Romanticism" (for example, anti-[[genetically modified organisms]] movements in Europe). The book is about [[sustainable management]] in relation with the geo-[[politics of global warming]], with an attempt to avoid a global [[tragedy of the commons]], with prime example of [[overfishing]]. In it he builds upon a legacy of the economic psychology of [[greed and fear]], from early [[Utilitarianism]] (Jeremy Bentham) to more recently the [[Stern Review]].
Collier was born on 23 April 1949.<ref name="The Guardian">{{Citation | title = Birthdays | newspaper = [[The Guardian]] | page = 33 | date = 23 April 2014 }}</ref> Collier’s great-grandfather, Karl Hellenschmidt, was a [[Germans|German]] immigrant to the UK. During World War I, Collier’s grandfather, Karl Hellenschmidt Jr, changed his surname from Hellenschmidt to Collier.<ref name=":3">{{cite web|title=Exodus, by Paul Collier|url=https://amp.ft.com/content/ec147ccc-3d57-11e3-b754-00144feab7de|website=Financial Times|date=27 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Collier|title=Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World|date=14 April 2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-023148-4|page=273}}</ref>


Collier was brought up in [[Sheffield]] where he attended [[King Edward VII School (Sheffield)|King Edward VII School]], a state school. Both of Collier's parents left school at the age of 12. He studied [[Philosophy, politics and economics|Philosophy, politics, and economics]] at the University of Oxford, going on to also get his D.Phil from the University of Oxford.
He is a patron of the [[Media Legal Defence Initiative]].


==Academic career==
Collier was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2008 Birthday Honours]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |startpage=7 |supp=yes }}</ref> and [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to promoting research and policy change in Africa.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=60728|supp=yes|startpage=1|endpage=|date=31 December 2013}}</ref>
Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the [[Blavatnik School of Government]] at the University of Oxford and co-Director of the [[International Growth Centre]].<ref name=":0" /> He is currently a Professeur invité at [[Sciences Po]] and a Professorial Fellow of [[St Antony's College, Oxford]].<ref name=":1" /> Previously, he was a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.


He was a founder of the [[Centre for the Study of African Economies]] at Oxford and remained its director from 1989 until 2014. From 1998-2003, he took a five-year Public Service leave during which he was the Director of the Development Research Group of the [[World Bank]].
Currently he is working on a book called "State of War," in which he "sets out why [he thinks] democracy has gone wrong in the bottom billion and what would be needed to put it on track."<ref>{{cite book|last=Miguel|first=Edward|title=Africa's Turn?|date=2009|publisher=MIT|location=Cambridge, MA|isbn=978-0-262-01289-8|page=110}}</ref>


Collier is a specialist in the political, economic and developmental predicaments of [[Developing country|low-income countries]].<ref name=economist>{{cite news |url=http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9581576 |title=How to help the poorest: Springing the traps |access-date=7 August 2007 |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |date=2 August 2007}}</ref> His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural resources rich societies; urbanisation in low-income countries; private investment in African infrastructure and changing organisational cultures.
==Work==
===Research topics===
* Governance in low-income countries, especially the [[political economy]] of democracy
* Economic growth in Africa
* Economics of civil war, aid, [[globalisation]] and poverty
* The [[greed versus grievance|greed vs grievance]] debate in international relations


He has authored numerous books, many of which earned widespread recognition. Of note are ''[[The Bottom Billion]]: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (2007), The Plundered Planet: Why We Must, and How We Can, Manage Nature for Global Prosperity,'' (2010), and ''The Future of Capitalism:'' ''Facing the New Anxieties'' (2018). His most recent book, ''Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places'' was published in June 2024.
===Selected publications===
* ''The Plundered Planet: Why We Must, and How We Can, Manage Nature for Global Prosperity'' (2010) [[Oxford University Press]] ISBN 978-0-19-539525-9.
* ''Labour and poverty in rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and rural development in the United Republic of Tanzania'', [[Oxford University Press]], New York 1991, ISBN 0-19-828315-6.
* ''[[The Bottom Billion|The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It]]''. ISBN 0-19-531145-0.
* (with Anke Hoeffler) 'On economic causes of civil war' ''Oxford Economic Papers'', vol 50 iss 4, (1998), pp 563–573.
* (with Anke Hoeffler) 'Greed and grievance in civil war' ''Oxford Economic Papers'', vol 56 iss 4, (2004), pp 563–595.
* (with Lisa Chauvet and Haavard Hegre) 'The Security Challenge in Conflict-Prone Countries', [[Copenhagen Consensus]] 2008 Challenge Paper, (2008).
* ''Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places'', [[Harper (publisher)|Harper]], (March 2009)
* ''Plundered nations?: successes and failures in natural resource extraction'' co-edited with [[Anthony Venables|Anthony J. Venables]] (2011)
* ''[[Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World]]'', [[Oxford University Press]] (October 2013)


Collier currently serves on the advisory board of [[Academics Stand Against Poverty]] (ASAP).
===Video===

* [http://www.res.org.uk/society/lecture2006.asp The Royal Economic Society's 2006 Annual Public Lecture], by Coller ([[Royal Economic Society]])
==Honours==
Collier has received a number of prestigious awards during his career. He was appointed [[Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] (CBE) in the [[2008 Birthday Honours]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=58729 |date=14 June 2008 |page=7 |supp=y}}</ref> and was [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] in the 2014 [[New Year Honours]] for services to promoting research and policy change in Africa.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=60728 |supp=y|page=1|date=31 December 2013}}</ref>

In November 2014, Collier was awarded the [[President's Medal (British Academy)|President's Medal]] by the [[British Academy]], for "his pioneering contribution in bringing ideas from research in to policy within the field of African economics."<ref>{{cite web|title=British Academy President's Medal awarded to Paul Collier|url=https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/news/british-academy-president2019s-medal-awarded-to-paul-collier|website=Social Sciences Division|publisher=University of Oxford|access-date=23 July 2017|date=28 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170915081706/https://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/news/british-academy-president2019s-medal-awarded-to-paul-collier|archive-date=15 September 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> In July 2017, Collier was elected a [[Fellow of the British Academy]] (FBA), the United Kingdom's [[national academy]] for the humanities and social sciences.<ref>{{cite web|title=Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research|url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/news/elections-british-academy-celebrate-diversity-uk-research|website=British Academy|access-date=29 July 2017|date=2 July 2017}}</ref>

He has also been awarded the Adam Smith Prize by Glasgow's Philosophical Society (2023), the Citizenship Award by P&V Foundation in Belgium (2017), Richardson Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), A.SK Prize in Social Science (2013), Estoril Prize (2009), Corine Prize (2008), Lionel Gelber Prize (2008), Arthur Ross Prize (2008), and Thompson 'Current Classic' Award for the most cited article (2010).

He was given an Honorary Fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford, in 2010 and honorary doctorate degrees from Universite d'Auvergne (2007), University of Sheffield (2008), and University of Antwerp (2014).

== Work ==
=== Books ===
* ''Labour and Poverty in Rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and Rural Development in the United Republic of Tanzania'', [[Oxford University Press]], New York, 1991 {{ISBN|978-0198283157}}.
* ''[[The Bottom Billion]]: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It'', Oxford University Press, 2007 {{ISBN|9780195311457}}.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-bottom-billion-9780195311457 |title=The Bottom Billion - Hardcover - Paul Collier - Oxford University Press |publisher=Global.oup.com |date= 25 May 2007|isbn=978-0-19-531145-7 |accessdate=2021-11-25}}</ref>
* ''Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places'', [[Harper (publisher)|Harper]], March 2009 {{ISBN|978-0061479649}}.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.harpercollins.com/9780061479649/wars-guns-and-votes/| title = Wars, Guns, and Votes – HarperCollins}}</ref>
* ''The Plundered Planet: Why We Must, and How We Can, Manage Nature for Global Prosperity'', [[Oxford University Press]], 2010 {{ISBN|978-0-19-539525-9}}.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-plundered-planet-9780195395259 |title=The Plundered Planet - Hardcover - Paul Collier - Oxford University Press |publisher=Global.oup.com |date= 11 May 2010|isbn=978-0-19-539525-9 |accessdate=2021-11-25}}</ref>
* ''Plundered Nations?: Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction'' co-edited with [[Anthony Venables|Anthony J. Venables]], [[Palgrave Macmillan|Palgrave Macmillan UK]], 2011 {{ISBN|978-0-230-29022-8}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230290228 |title=Plundered Nations? - Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction {{!}} Paul Collier {{!}} Palgrave Macmillan |website=www.palgrave.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181008214043/https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9780230290228 |archive-date=2018-10-08}} </ref>
* ''[[Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World]]'', [[Oxford University Press]], October 2013 {{ISBN|978-0195398656}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://academic.oup.com/migration/article-abstract/1/3/375/951665 |title=Exodus: How migration is changing our world. By Paul Collier. &#124; Migration Studies &#124; Oxford Academic |publisher=Academic.oup.com |date=2013-10-28 |accessdate=2021-11-25}}</ref>
* ''Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World'' with [[Alexander Betts (academic)|Alexander Betts]], [[Oxford University Press]], September 2017 {{ISBN|978-0190659158}}.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://global.oup.com/academic/product/refuge-9780190659158 |title=Refuge - Paul Collier; Alexander Betts - Oxford University Press |publisher=Global.oup.com |date= 6 September 2017|isbn=978-0-19-065915-8 |accessdate=2021-11-25}}</ref>
* ''The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties'', [[Allen Lane]], April 2018 {{ISBN|978-0241333884}}.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307625/the-future-of-capitalism/9780241333884.html |title=The Future of Capitalism |website=www.penguin.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220163624/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/307625/the-future-of-capitalism/9780241333884.html |archive-date=2020-02-20}} </ref>
* ''Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism'' with [[John Kay (economist)|John Kay]], July 2020 <nowiki>ISBN 978-0241467954</nowiki> <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/319/319990/greed-is-dead/9780241467954.html |title=Greed Is Dead |website=www.penguin.co.uk |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806001959/https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/319/319990/greed-is-dead/9780241467954.html |archive-date=2020-08-06}} </ref>
* ''Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places,'' Allen Lane, June 2024 ISBN 9780241279168.

=== Selected articles ===
* (with Anke Hoeffler) 'On economic causes of civil war' ''Oxford Economic Papers'', vol 50 issue 4, 1998, pp.&nbsp;563–573.
* (with V. L. Elliott, Håvard Hegre, Anke Hoeffler, Marta Reynal-Querol, Nicholas Sambanis) [https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/13938 'Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy'] "World Bank Policy Research Report," 2003.
* (with Anke Hoeffler) 'Greed and grievance in civil war' ''Oxford Economic Papers'', vol 56 issue 4, 2004, pp.&nbsp;563–595.
* (with Lisa Chauvet and Haavard Hegre) 'The Security Challenge in Conflict-Prone Countries', [[Copenhagen Consensus]] 2008 Challenge Paper, 2008.

=== Video ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070918185251/http://www.res.org.uk/society/lecture2006.asp The Royal Economic Society's 2006 Annual Public Lecture], by Collier at the ([[Royal Economic Society]])
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3692837809306659969&q=paul+collier&total=49&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2 Interview with Fareed Zakaria on Foreign Exchange]
* [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3692837809306659969&q=paul+collier&total=49&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2 Interview with Fareed Zakaria on Foreign Exchange]
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/270 TED Conference, Paul Collier on "The Bottom Billion"]
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/270 TED Conference, Paul Collier on "The Bottom Billion"]
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_s_new_rules_for_rebuilding_a_broken_nation.html TED Conference, Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nation]
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_s_new_rules_for_rebuilding_a_broken_nation.html TED Conference, Paul Collier's new rules for rebuilding a broken nation]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0t4uq-gpUA Why social science should integrate culture and how to do it?], at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford University, January 2017


===Press===
=== Press ===
* [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/53359098-7a61-11df-9cd7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz15xdyvsCO Review of The Plundered Planet] by the [[Financial Times]]
* [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/53359098-7a61-11df-9cd7-00144feabdc0.html#axzz15xdyvsCO Review of The Plundered Planet] by the [[Financial Times]]
* [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4858ed7e-0178-11dc-8b8c-000b5df10621.html Review of the Bottom Billion by the Financial Times]
* [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4858ed7e-0178-11dc-8b8c-000b5df10621.html Review of the Bottom Billion by the Financial Times]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Ferguson-t.html?pagewanted=1 Review of the Bottom Billion in The New York Times]
* [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/01/books/review/Ferguson-t.html?pagewanted=1 Review of the Bottom Billion in The New York Times]
* [http://www.nyu.edu/fas/institute/dri/Easterly/File/Lancet_102707.pdf Review of The Bottom Billion by William Easterly in The Lancet]
* [http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/grove150808.html Samuel Grove, "The Bottom of the Barrel: A Review of Paul Collier's ''The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It''."]
* [http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2008/grove150808.html Samuel Grove, "The Bottom of the Barrel: A Review of Paul Collier's ''The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It''."]


==See also==
== See also ==
{{Portal box|Environment|Politics|Economics}}
* [[Environmental politics]]
* [[Environmental politics]]
{{Portalbar|Environment|Politics|Economics}}
* [[Good Governance]]
* [[Tanzania]]


==References==
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
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==External links==
== External links ==
{{wikiquote}}
* [http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/paul-collier Paul Collier's home page at the Blavatnik School of Government]
* [http://www.bsg.ox.ac.uk/people/paul-collier Paul Collier's home page at the Blavatnik School of Government]
* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/research/africa.htm Links to downloadable research papers on Africa, Aid, Conflict, Political Economy and other topics]
* [http://users.ox.ac.uk/~econpco/research/africa.htm Links to downloadable research papers on Africa, Aid, Conflict, Political Economy and other topics]
* [http://writerinterviews.blogspot.com/2007/08/paul-collier.html Interview with Paul Collier by J. Tyler Dickovick]
* [http://writerinterviews.blogspot.com/2007/08/paul-collier.html Interview with Paul Collier by J. Tyler Dickovick]
* [http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/wars-guns-and-votes/ Interview with the ''Oxonian Review'' in March 2009]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20111001070232/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/wars-guns-and-votes/ Interview with the ''Oxonian Review'' in March 2009]}}
* [http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk/video/200711_collier.cfm Video of recent talk at Oxford University – "The Bottom Billion"]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091124230500/http://www.21school.ox.ac.uk/video/200711_collier.cfm Video of recent talk at Oxford University – "The Bottom Billion"]
* {{TED speaker}}
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/270 TED Talks: Paul Collier shares 4 ways to help the "bottom billion"] at [[TED (conference)|TED]] in 2008
** [http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_collier_shares_4_ways_to_help_the_bottom_billion TED Talks: Paul Collier: The "bottom billion" (TED2008)]
* {{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Russ |title=Paul Collier Podcasts |url=http://www.econtalk.org/archives/_featuring/paul_collier/ |work=[[EconTalk]] |publisher=[[Library of Economics and Liberty]] |authorlink=Russ Roberts}}
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This article is about the economist. For other people, see Paul Collier (disambiguation).

Sir
Paul Collier
CBE FBA
Collier at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2013
Born
Paul Collier

(1949-04-23) 23 April 1949 (age 75)[1]
NationalityBritish
Academic career
FieldDevelopment economics
InstitutionBlavatnik School of Government, International Growth Centre, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
Alma materUniversity of Oxford

Sir Paul Collier, CBE, FBA (born 23 April 1949) is a British development economist who serves as the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and co-Director of the International Growth Centre.[2] He is also a Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.[3]

He has served as a senior advisor to the Blair Commission for Africa and was the Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank between 1998 and 2003.[4]

He has written for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. In 2010 and 2011, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine on its list of top global thinkers.[5][6]

From 2017-2018, Collier was the academic co-director of the LSE-Oxford Commission on State Fragility, Growth, and Development, and was a founding member of the International Growth Centre's Council on State Fragility.[4] [7]

Early life and education

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Collier was born on 23 April 1949.[1] Collier’s great-grandfather, Karl Hellenschmidt, was a German immigrant to the UK. During World War I, Collier’s grandfather, Karl Hellenschmidt Jr, changed his surname from Hellenschmidt to Collier.[7][8]

Collier was brought up in Sheffield where he attended King Edward VII School, a state school. Both of Collier's parents left school at the age of 12. He studied Philosophy, politics, and economics at the University of Oxford, going on to also get his D.Phil from the University of Oxford.

Academic career

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Collier is Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford and co-Director of the International Growth Centre.[2] He is currently a Professeur invité at Sciences Po and a Professorial Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford.[3] Previously, he was a Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford and a Professor at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

He was a founder of the Centre for the Study of African Economies at Oxford and remained its director from 1989 until 2014. From 1998-2003, he took a five-year Public Service leave during which he was the Director of the Development Research Group of the World Bank.

Collier is a specialist in the political, economic and developmental predicaments of low-income countries.[9] His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural resources rich societies; urbanisation in low-income countries; private investment in African infrastructure and changing organisational cultures.

He has authored numerous books, many of which earned widespread recognition. Of note are The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (2007), The Plundered Planet: Why We Must, and How We Can, Manage Nature for Global Prosperity, (2010), and The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties (2018). His most recent book, Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places was published in June 2024.

Collier currently serves on the advisory board of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP).

Honours

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Collier has received a number of prestigious awards during his career. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours[10] and was knighted in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to promoting research and policy change in Africa.[11]

In November 2014, Collier was awarded the President's Medal by the British Academy, for "his pioneering contribution in bringing ideas from research in to policy within the field of African economics."[12] In July 2017, Collier was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[13]

He has also been awarded the Adam Smith Prize by Glasgow's Philosophical Society (2023), the Citizenship Award by P&V Foundation in Belgium (2017), Richardson Lifetime Achievement Award (2016), A.SK Prize in Social Science (2013), Estoril Prize (2009), Corine Prize (2008), Lionel Gelber Prize (2008), Arthur Ross Prize (2008), and Thompson 'Current Classic' Award for the most cited article (2010).

He was given an Honorary Fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford, in 2010 and honorary doctorate degrees from Universite d'Auvergne (2007), University of Sheffield (2008), and University of Antwerp (2014).

Work

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Books

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  • Labour and Poverty in Rural Tanzania: Ujamaa and Rural Development in the United Republic of Tanzania, Oxford University Press, New York, 1991 ISBN 978-0198283157.
  • The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It, Oxford University Press, 2007 ISBN 9780195311457.[14]
  • Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places, Harper, March 2009 ISBN 978-0061479649.[15]
  • The Plundered Planet: Why We Must, and How We Can, Manage Nature for Global Prosperity, Oxford University Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-539525-9.[16]
  • Plundered Nations?: Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction co-edited with Anthony J. Venables, Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2011 ISBN 978-0-230-29022-8.[17]
  • Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World, Oxford University Press, October 2013 ISBN 978-0195398656.[18]
  • Refuge: Rethinking Refugee Policy in a Changing World with Alexander Betts, Oxford University Press, September 2017 ISBN 978-0190659158.[19]
  • The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties, Allen Lane, April 2018 ISBN 978-0241333884.[20]
  • Greed Is Dead: Politics After Individualism with John Kay, July 2020 ISBN 978-0241467954 [21]
  • Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places, Allen Lane, June 2024 ISBN 9780241279168.

Selected articles

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  • (with Anke Hoeffler) 'On economic causes of civil war' Oxford Economic Papers, vol 50 issue 4, 1998, pp. 563–573.
  • (with V. L. Elliott, Håvard Hegre, Anke Hoeffler, Marta Reynal-Querol, Nicholas Sambanis) 'Breaking the Conflict Trap: Civil War and Development Policy' "World Bank Policy Research Report," 2003.
  • (with Anke Hoeffler) 'Greed and grievance in civil war' Oxford Economic Papers, vol 56 issue 4, 2004, pp. 563–595.
  • (with Lisa Chauvet and Haavard Hegre) 'The Security Challenge in Conflict-Prone Countries', Copenhagen Consensus 2008 Challenge Paper, 2008.

Video

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Press

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Birthdays", The Guardian, p. 33, 23 April 2014
  2. ^ a b "Paul Collier". www.bsg.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 11 May 2023.
  3. ^ a b "Paul Collier". www.bsg.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  4. ^ a b "Paul Collier". IGC. Retrieved 29 March 2019.
  5. ^ https://foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/11/28/the_fp_top_100_global_thinkers?page=0,39#thinker56 December 2011 Foreign Policy
  6. ^ "Foreign Policy's Second Annual List of the 100 Top Global Thinkers | Foreign Policy". foreignpolicy.com. Archived from the original on 1 December 2010.
  7. ^ a b "Exodus, by Paul Collier". Financial Times. 27 October 2014.
  8. ^ Paul Collier (14 April 2015). Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World. Oxford University Press. p. 273. ISBN 978-0-19-023148-4.
  9. ^ "How to help the poorest: Springing the traps". The Economist. 2 August 2007. Retrieved 7 August 2007.
  10. ^ "No. 58729". The London Gazette (Supplement). 14 June 2008. p. 7.
  11. ^ "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 1.
  12. ^ "British Academy President's Medal awarded to Paul Collier". Social Sciences Division. University of Oxford. 28 November 2014. Archived from the original on 15 September 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  13. ^ "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
  14. ^ The Bottom Billion - Hardcover - Paul Collier - Oxford University Press. Global.oup.com. 25 May 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-531145-7. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  15. ^ "Wars, Guns, and Votes – HarperCollins".
  16. ^ The Plundered Planet - Hardcover - Paul Collier - Oxford University Press. Global.oup.com. 11 May 2010. ISBN 978-0-19-539525-9. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  17. ^ "Plundered Nations? - Successes and Failures in Natural Resource Extraction | Paul Collier | Palgrave Macmillan". www.palgrave.com. Archived from the original on 8 October 2018.
  18. ^ "Exodus: How migration is changing our world. By Paul Collier. | Migration Studies | Oxford Academic". Academic.oup.com. 28 October 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  19. ^ Refuge - Paul Collier; Alexander Betts - Oxford University Press. Global.oup.com. 6 September 2017. ISBN 978-0-19-065915-8. Retrieved 25 November 2021.
  20. ^ "The Future of Capitalism". www.penguin.co.uk. Archived from the original on 20 February 2020.
  21. ^ "Greed Is Dead". www.penguin.co.uk. Archived from the original on 6 August 2020.
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