Sanjaya Lall

Sanjaya Lall is Professor of Development Economics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Green College. He is based at the International Development Centre in Queen Elizabeth House, the University department specialising in research and graduate teaching on development. He is the Managing Editor of Oxford Development Studies and the Course Director for the MSc. in Economics for Development at Oxford University. He has been a staff member of the World Bank during 1965-68 and 1985-87 and has acted as advisor and consultant to many organisations, including the World Bank, IFC, UNCTAD, ILO, UNIDO, FAO, UNICEF, Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, African Development Bank, the UN Centre on Transnational Corporations, ESCAP, OECD, ECLAC, European Commission, INTECH, WIDER and the Commonwealth Secretariat. His research has ranged over South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America. He is principal consultant to UNCTAD on its World Investment Report and to UNIDO on its Industrial Development Report.

Professor Lall has published widely in the fields of international investment, technology transfer and indigenous technology development, trade and industrial strategy and other aspects of industrialisation. His books include Foreign Investment, Transnationals and Developing Countries, with Paul Streeten (1977), The Multinational Corporation (1980), Developing Countries in the International Economy (1981), The New Multinationals (1983), Multinationals, Technology and Exports (1985), Theory and Reality in Development (1986), Learning to Industrialize (1987), Building Industrial Competitiveness in Developing Countries (1990), Current Issues in Development Economics, editor with V. N. Balasubramanyam (1992), Alternative Development Strategies in Sub-Saharan Africa, with Frances Stewart and Samuel Wangwe (1993), Technology and Enterprise Development: Ghana Under Structural Adjustment, (1994), The Technological Response to Import Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa (1999), Competitiveness, Technology and Skills (2001) and Failing to Compete: Technology Systems and Technology Development in Africa (2002) with C. Pietrobelli.