David Woodward

David Woodward is an economist who was educated at the University of Oxford. After several years working in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including a two year secondment to the UK Executive Director's Office at the IMF and World Bank in 1986-88, he resigned to work for the voluntary sector. He spent two years (1990-92) with Save the Children Fund (UK) as a researcher. Since that time he has been an independent economic/development consultant, in which capacity he has done...See more

David Woodward is an economist who was educated at the University of Oxford. After several years working in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office, including a two year secondment to the UK Executive Director's Office at the IMF and World Bank in 1986-88, he resigned to work for the voluntary sector. He spent two years (1990-92) with Save the Children Fund (UK) as a researcher. Since that time he has been an independent economic/development consultant, in which capacity he has done research and writing for UNCTAD, UNDP and the Institute of Child Health, as well as a variety of development NGOs including (amongst others) Oxfam, One World Action, the European Network on Debt and Development (Eurodad), the Catholic Institute for International Relations, Jubilee 2000 and International Alert. In 1998 he joined the staff of the CIIR as Asia policy officer and in 2000 took up an appointment in the Health and Sustainable Development Department of the World Health Organization (WHO). He is the author of numerous reports and working papers, as well as the following books: Debt, Adjustment and Poverty in Developing Countries (two volumes) (London: SCF/UK and Pinter Publishers, 1992) Human Face or Human Facade? Adjustment and the Health of Mothers and Children (coauthored with Anthony Costello and Fiona Watson) (London: Institute of Child Health, 1994) See less