Professor of Economics and Public Policy Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, and a Director of the International Growth Centre, and the ESRC research network, Social Macroeconomics. Research covers the transformation from poverty to prosperity; state fragility; the implications of group psychology for development; migration and refugees; urbanization in poor countries and the crisis in modern capitalism, which is the subject of most recent book, “The Future of Capitalism”. Received a knighthood in 2014 for services to promoting research and policy change in Africa and has been listed as one of 100 most influential public thinkers.