Adrian Wood was educated at Cambridge and Harvard Universities. From 1969 to 1977, he taught at Cambridge, where he was a Fellow of King’s College and a lecturer in the Faculty of Economics. From 1977 to 1985, he was a senior economist at the World Bank in Washington DC, working on China, Turkey and the 1980 World Development Report. From 1985 to 2000, he was a Professorial Fellow of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. From 2000 to 2005, he was Chief Economist of the UK’s Department for International Development. He is now Professor of International Development at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the interactions between the global economy and national human resources.