Paul Collier

<p><strong>Paul Collier </strong>is the Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Blavatnik School of Government. He is the author of <em>The Bottom Billion</em>, which won the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Arthur Ross Prize awarded by the Council on Foreign Relations, <em>The Plundered Planet</em>, <em>Exodus </em>and<em> Refuge </em>(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. <em></em></p>