David Woodward (economist)

This article is about the economist. For the cartographer, see David Woodward.

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. with the International Monetary Fund. After returning to Britain, he worked as a research coordinator on debt for Save the Children and as a policy officer for Asia for The Catholic Institute for International Relations, now Progressio. He also spent time as a development economist with the World Health Organisation, and several years as an independent consultant, before joining the New Economics Foundation, where he is now head of the New Global Economy Programme. His interests include the implications of the global economy for households, especially poverty, food security and health.

[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
Cast adrift: How the rich are leaving the poor to sink in a warming world (co-author), NEF/Greenpeace, 2004
Growth isn’t working: the uneven distribution of benefits and costs from economic growth (co-author), NEF, 2006