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Simon Maxwell

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Director
United Kingdom

Short biographic note

Simon Maxwell became Director of the Overseas Development Institute in 1997. He is an economist who worked overseas for ten years, in Kenya and India for UNDP, and in Bolivia for UKODA; and then for 16 years at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, latterly as Programme Manager for Poverty, Food Security and the Environment. He has written widely on poverty, food security, agricultural development, and aid. His current research interests include development policy, aid, poverty, food security, linking relief and development, global governance and bridging research and policy.

Contact

Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
111 Westminster Bridge Road
London, SE1 7JD
United Kingdom

T: +44 20 7922 0345
F: +44 20 7922 0399


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