Paul Collier is the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Oxford Blavatnik School of
Government. He is the author of The Bottom Billion which won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the
Arthur Ross Prize awarded by the Council on Foreign Relations The Plundered Planet Exodus and
Refuge (with Alexander Betts). Collier has served as Director of the Research Department of the
World Bank and consults with the German and many other governments around the world.
