Will Africa’s New Natural Resource Bonanza Repeat History?

By PAUL COLLIER, Professor of Economics, Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University.
Introduced and moderated by Ghassan SALAME, Dean of the Paris School of International Affairs.

Paul Collier is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford University. Additionally, Paul Collier is currently Advisor to the Strategy and Policy Department of the IMF, advisor to the Africa Region of the World Bank; and he has advised the  British Government on its recent White Paper on economic development policy. He is also a Professeur invité at CERDI, Université d’Auverge, and at Paris 1.
In 2008 Paul Collier was awarded a CBE, Commander of the Order of the British Empire, ‘for services to scholarship and development’. From 1998-2003, Paul Collier took a five year public service leave, during which he was Director of the Research Development Department of the World Bank. Paul Collier is the author of The Bottom Billion, which in 2008 won the Lionel Gelber, Arthur Ross and Corine prizes and in May 2009 was the joint winner of the Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book prize. His second book, Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places was published in March 2009; and his latest book, The Plundered Planet: How to reconcile prosperity with nature was published in May of 2010. Paul Collier has been writing a monthly column for the Independent, and also writes for the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His research covers the causes and consequences of civil war; the effects of aid and the problems of democracy in low-income and natural-resources rich societies.

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