David Woodward

David is an independent writer and researcher on development issues, now based in The Netherlands. His main areas of interest are alternative economic models of development for poverty eradication in a carbon-constrained world; democratisation of global economic governance, with a particular focus on the International Monetary Fund; and the global economy and health.

David is a nef Fellow, and was Head of nef‘s New Global Economy programme from September 2004 until November 2007. He had previously worked as an economic adviser in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as a technical assistant to the UK Executive Director to the IMF and World Bank, as development economist in the Strategy Unit of the World Health Organisation, and for Save the Children (UK) and the Catholic Institute for International Relations (now Progressio), and as a freelance consultant.

As well as many articles and discussion papers on a wide range of issues in the global economy and development, David is the author of Debt, Adjustment and Poverty in Developing Countries, Volumes 1 and 2 (Pinter Publishers, 1992) and The Next Crisis? Direct and Equity Investment in Developing Countries (Zed Books, 2001). He also co-edited Global Public Goods for Health: Economic and Public Health Perspectives (OUP, 2003).