Graham Bird

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Graham Bird joined Surrey in 1975 and was promoted to a full professorship in 1987.

He is also a Visiting Professor of Economics at the Fletcher School, Tufts University, in the United States, and has held Visiting Professorships at Reading University in England, and at Wellesley College and Claremont McKenna College in the US. For a time during 1986 he was an Economic and Social Research Council Visiting Scholar at the Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden, and he has also been a visiting scholar at the Harvard Institute of International Development. He has taught at the Universities of Kent and Sussex, and at the London School of Economics. He has been a Research Associate at the Overseas Development Institute in London, and a consultant to the Commonwealth Secretariat, the World Bank, the World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNICEF, and UNDP. He was an economic adviser to the Brandt Commission. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Policy Reform, the Zagreb International Review of Economics and Business, and the Review of International Organizations, and has been a high level expert adviser to the Independent Evaluation Office of the IMF and a Visiting Scholar in the IMF’s Research Department. He was Head of the Economics Department at Surrey for twelve years until the end of 1998, and served on the Steering Committee of the Royal Economic Society’s Conference of Heads of University Departments of Economics and on the Quality Assurance Agency’s Benchmarking Group for Economics which set standards for teaching Economics at universities in the UK.

Research interests

Graham Bird's principal research interests relate to the international financial problems of developing countries, and his research frequently crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries. He has approaching 200 publications to his name and has published in the leading development studies, and international relations journals as well as in mainstream international economic journals. He has published a number of research monographs and textbooks and has had three papers published in the prestigious Essays in International Economics series by Princeton University. He is currently working on a series of research projects and papers dealing with various aspects of the IMF’s operations, currency crises, foreign aid, external debt and macroeconomic policy in developing countries. He has recently completed a research project funded by the British Academy investigating the determinants and catalytic effects of IMF programmes.

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