Richard Jolly

For Surgeon-Captain Richard Jolly OBE, see Rick Jolly.
Richard Jolly
GCMG

Richard Jolly at LSE Women's Library in 2014.
Born 30 June 1934
Hove, Sussex, England
Nationality British
Institution Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex
Field Development economist
Alma mater Yale University, Cambridge University
Awards Honorary Degree, University of East Anglia (1988), Honorary Degree, Sussex University (1991), Honorary Fellow, Magdalene College, Cambridge University (2001), Honorary Doctorate, The International Institute of Social Studies (2007)
Spouse Alison Jolly (died February 2014)

Sir (Arthur) Richard Jolly (30 June 1934) GCMG, is a leading development economist who was named one of the fifty key thinkers in development.[1] He is currently Honorary Professor and Research Associate[2] of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex focusing on issues of world development and the role of the UN in global governance. From 1982-2000 he was an Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, first as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF and from 1996 as Coordinator of the UNDP’s Human Development Report.[3] He co-authored the influential book Adjustment with a human face: protecting the vulnerable and promoting growth.[4] Jolly has been a Trustee of OXFAM,[5] a Chair of the UN Association of the United Kingdom[6] and a member of the Council of the Overseas Development Institute. He was for nearly a decade during the 1970s the director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom.[2] He has written or been a co-author of many articles on economic development and some 20 books, including most recently, UN Ideas That Changed the World,[7] The Power of UN Ideas: Lessons from the First 60 Years[8] and UN Contributions to Developing Thinking and Practice.[9]

Career

After school at Brighton College, Richard Jolly graduated with first class honours in economics from Cambridge University in 1956, and followed this with a PhD from Yale (1959–62).[10]

During the 1960s he was Research Fellow for the East Africa Institute of Social Research (1963), adviser on manpower to the Government of Zambia (1964–66) and research officer in the Department of Applied Economics at Cambridge University (1964–68).[10]

He became a Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies in 1969, and then became its Director from 1972 until 1981.[2] During this period he co-directed with Hans Singer in 1972, the ILO Employment Mission to Kenya, published as Employment, Incomes and Equality.[2][11] He also served as Special Consultant on North-South issues to the Secretary-General of the OECD in 1978, and from 1978-1981 was a member and rapporteur of the United Nations Committee on Development Planning.[2]

From 1982 to 1995 he was Deputy Executive Director in UNICEF,[12] with responsibilities for UNICEF’s programmes in over 130 countries of the world, including UNICEF’s strategy for support to countries in reducing child mortality and implementing the goals agreed at the 1990 World Summit for Children. In UNICEF, he was also directly involved in efforts to ensure more attention to the needs of children and women in the making of economic adjustment policies, and co-authored the book Adjustment with a Human Face.[4] During this period, from 1982-1985, he was Vice President of the Society for International Development and from 1987-1996, was Chairman of its North/South Roundtable.[13]

From 1996 to 2000 Jolly became Special Adviser to the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and principal coordinator of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report[10][14][15]

As a senior UN official, Richard Jolly was much concerned with reform and collaboration among the operational agencies. From 1996 to 2000 he chaired the system-wide UN Sub-Committee on Nutrition (SCN)[16] and from 2000 to 2007 the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC),[2][17] both of which prepared major reports setting out global goals and strategies for reducing malnutrition and ensuring access to hygiene, sanitation and water on a world-wide basis.

As co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project (1999-2010),[3][10] he oversaw the production of the 17 volume history of the UN’s contributions to economic and social development covering the ideas emerging and promoted by the UN since 1945. He was the senior author of the final volume, UN Ideas that Changed the World[7] and a co-author of five others, three of which were recognized by Choice Magazine as outstanding academic books of the year. One of these volumes, UN Voices: the Struggle for Social Justice and Development,[18] contains summaries of in-depth interviews of the leadership and experiences of the four living Secretaries-General and 75 other senior UN officials.

Publications which he has co-authored include five of the volumes of the UN Intellectual History, five Human Development Reports (1996 to 2000),[14][15] Development with a Human Face;[19] Adjustment with a Human Face;[4] The UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions: New Challenges for the 21st Century;[20] Disarmament and World Development;[21] Planning Education for African Development[22] and numerous scholarly articles.

He has been awarded honorary degrees from the University of East Anglia, Sussex University and the Institute of Social Studies in the Hague. He was knighted by the Queen in the Order of St Michael and St George in the New Years Honours of 2001 for his contributions to international development.

Other key posts

Personal life

Richard Jolly was married to Alison Jolly, the noted primatologist,[10] until her death in February 2014. They have four children.

Key Publications

Papers 

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References

  1. ↑ Simon, David (2006). Fifty key thinkers on development. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415337909.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Richard Jolly - Research Associate". Institute of Development Studies. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Richard Jolly". United Nations Intellectual History Project. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Cornia, Giovanni Andrea; Jolly, Richard; Stewart, Frances (1987). Adjustment with a human face. Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press. ISBN 0198286090.
  5. ↑ "Richard Jolly". Oxfam Policy and Practice Blog. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  6. ↑ Jolly, Richard. "The UN at 60: on the 60th anniversary of its creation, Sir Richard Jolly reviews the chequered history of the world's foremost intergovernmental body". The Free Library. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Jolly, Richard; Emmerij, Louis; Weiss, Thomas G. (2009). UN ideas that changed the world. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253221188.
  8. ↑ Jolly, Richard; Emmerij,, Louis; Weiss, Thomas G. (2005). The power of UN ideas : lessons from the first 60 years. New York: United Nations Intellectual History Project. ISBN 0976565501.
  9. ↑ Jolly, Richard; Emmerij, Louis; Ghai, Dharam; Lapeyre, Frédéric (2004). UN contributions to development thinking and practice. Bloomington [u.a.]: Indiana Univ. Press. ISBN 0253216842.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 Weiss, Thomas G. (20 July 2005). "Transcript of interview of Richard Jolly" (PDF). New York, New York: United Nations Intellectual History Project. Retrieved 19 July 2014.
  11. ↑ Jolly, Richard; Singer, Hans (1972). Employment, Incomes and Equality: A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya (PDF). Geneva: International Labour office. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  12. ↑ Jolly, Richard. "Statement by Dr. Richard Jolly, Acting Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)". United Nations Archive. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  13. ↑ Jolly, Richard (2007). "Society for International Development, the North–South Roundtable and the Power of Ideas" (PDF). Development 50 (51): 47–58. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 United Nations Development Programme (1996). Human Development Report (PDF). New York: Oxford University Press for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). ISBN 0-19-511158-3. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 United Nations Development Programme (2000). Human development report 2000 : human development and human rights (PDF). New York: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 0-19-521678-4. Retrieved 5 February 2015.
  16. ↑ "Report of the Sub-Committee on Nutrition at its Twenty-Fifth Session" (PDF). SUB-COMMITTEE ON NUTRITION. 30 March – 2 April 1998. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  17. ↑ "Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council Press Release". The African Water Page. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
  18. ↑ Weiss, Thomas G.; Carayannis, Tatiana; Emmerij, Louis; Richard, Jolly (2005). UN voices : the struggle for development and social justice ([Online-Ausg.] ed.). Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253217881.
  19. ↑ Mehrotra, edited by Santosh; Jolly, Richard (2000). Development with a human face : experiences in social achievement and economic growth. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198296576.
  20. ↑ Jolly, Richard; Ul Haq, Mahbub; Streeten, Paul; Haq, Khadija (1995). The UN and the Bretton Woods institutions : new challenges for the twenty-first century. Basingstoke: Macmillan. ISBN 978-0333628942.
  21. ↑ Graham, Mac; Jolly, Richard; Smith, Chris (1986). Disarmament and world development. Oxford: Pergamon. ISBN 0080313086.
  22. ↑ Jolly, Richard (1969). Planning Education for African Development. East African Publishing.
  23. ↑ "Organization". The British Association of Former United Nations Civil Servants. Retrieved 5 February 2015.

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