Mavrotas, George
Prof. George Mavrotas (DPhil Economics, Oxford) is a development economist with about 35 years of experience in international development and with a broad range of research interests which include inter alia development finance, the macroeconomics of aid effectiveness, food security and nutrition, poverty reduction and agricultural transformation, as well as international migration and urbanization and development. He is currently an Associate Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS in Bruges; a Full Professor at the Institute of Development Policy of the University of Antwerp in Belgium; and a Senior Fellow of the Foundation for International Development Study and Research (FERDI) in Clermont-Ferrand, France. Prior to that, he was a Senior Fellow of the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); Chief Economist of the Global Development Network (GDN); and Senior Research Fellow and Project Director at the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER) and prior to that on the Economics Faculties of the Universities of Oxford and Manchester where he taught for many years. He also taught as Visiting Professor at the Universities of Helsinki (Finland), CERDI-Auvergne (Clermont-Ferrand, France), and Peking University (Beijing).
He is widely published in a broad range of research areas in international development and he is the author and co-author of more than 150 publications, including numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals (such as Economica, Oxford Economic Papers, Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv, World Development, Journal of Development Studies, Agricultural Economics, Food Security, Review of Development Economics, Economic Modelling, Journal of Financial Stability, European Journal of Finance, Manchester School, Journal of International Affairs, Public Health Nutrition, PLoS ONE, Maternal and Child Nutrition and World Economy among many others) and 10 books. Books include Challenges of Urbanization: Perspectives from the Global South (Routledge, 2021; with K. Sridhar); Security and Development (Edward Elgar, 2011 – with contributions by leading scholars including Nobel Laureate Michael Spence); Foreign Aid for Development: Issues, Challenges and the New Agenda (Oxford University Press, 2010 – endorsements for this book are available here); Commodities, Governance and Economic Development under Globalization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010; with M. Nissanke); Development Aid: A Fresh Look (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; with M. McGillivray); Domestic Resource Mobilization and Financial Development (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); Financial Development, Institutions, Growth and Poverty Reduction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; with B. Guha-Khasnobis); Development Finance in the Global Economy: The Road Ahead (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008; with T. Addison); Advancing Development: Core Themes in Global Economics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007; with A. F. Shorrocks – both in hardback and paperback, a bestseller in Palgrave Macmillan - with a Foreword by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen); and Commodity Supply Management by Producing Countries (Oxford University Press, 1997; with A. Maizels and R. Bacon).
During his Associate Research Fellowship at UNU-CRIS and in view of his wide range of research interests and expertise he will primarily contribute to the research work of the Economic and Political Interactions Cluster as well as the Cluster on Nature, Climate and Health.
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