Jolly Richard: A Development Economist in the United Nations

Richard Jolly is Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. He was UNICEF's Deputy Executive Director (1982-1995), Principal Coordinator and co-author of UNDP's widely acclaimed Human Development Report (1996-2000) and Co-Director of the UN Intellectual History Project (2000-2010). He has written many articles and books on development, including (with Louis Emmerij and Thomas G. Weiss) UN Ideas That Changed the World (2009) and UNICEF: Global Governance That Works (2014). In 2001, he was knighted for services to the UN and international development.