Sir Paul Collier
Sir Paul Collier is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Director of the International Growth Centre, and the ESRC research network, Social Macroeconomics.
His research covers the transformation from poverty to prosperity; state fragility; the implications of group psychology for development; migration and refugees; urbanization in poor countries and the crisis in modern capitalism, which is the subject of his book, “The Future of Capitalism”.
Sir Paul received a knighthood in 2014 for services to promoting research and policy change in Africa and has been listed as one of the hundred most influential public thinkers.
The video for his TED 2008 talk titled “The ‘bottom billion’” has 1.6 million views.