David Woodward (economist)

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David Woodward was born in West Molesey, Surrey, UK in 1959 and graduated from Keble College, Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics in 1982. After graduating, he joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, where he worked as an economic advisor working on debt, structural adjustment and other development issues, with emphasis on Latin America and South East Asia. He then spent two years in Washington, D.C., working in the office of the UK's Executive Director to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. After returning to Britain, he worked as a research coordinator on debt for Save the Children and (after several years as an independent consultant) as a policy officer for Asia for The Catholic Institute for International Relations, now Progressio. He then spent two and a half years as a development economist with the World Health Organisation, and several years as an independent consultant, before joining the New Economics Foundation, where he was head of the New Global Economy Programme for three years. He is now again an independent consultant, focusing primarily on global economic governance, the interface between development, the environment and health, and alternatives to the neoliberal model of development.

[edit] Books and papers include:

• Debt, Adjustment and Poverty in Developing Countries, Pinter Publishers, 1992
• The Next Crisis? Direct and Equity Investment in Developing Countries, Zed Books, 2001
• Global Public Goods for Health: Economic and Public Health Perspectives (co-editor), OUP, 2003
• Growth isn’t working: the uneven distribution of benefits and costs from economic growth (co-author), nef, 2006