Milestones and Turning Points in Development Thinking

The first volume of IDS Companions to Development Studies focuses on pivotal writing emerging from the IDS fellowship during the last 50 years. It includes five topics: perspectives and paradigms, debunking myths, development policy, gender and international perspectives, and policy, as well as names like Seers, Singer, Lipton, Reg Green.

Sir Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, UK, where he was Director from 1972-81. After this, he was an Assistant Secretary General of the UN until 2000, first as Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF until 1995 and in UNDP from 1995-2000 as Principal Coordinator of UNDP's Human Development Report. From 2000-2010 he was co-Director of the UN Intellectual History Project and co-author of the final summary volume, UN Ideas that Changed the World. He has been a trustee of OXFAM, a Council member of ODI and President of the UN Association of the United Kingdom. He was knighted by the Queen in 2001 in recognition of his contributions to international development.