Christopher Adam is Professor of Development Economics and former Head of the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford, UK.
His research focuses on the macroeconomics of low-income countries, particularly those of sub-Saharan Africa, and has included work on issues of fiscal, monetary and exchange rate policy; public investment, sovereign debt, growth; and structural change. More recently he has started to examine questions of the macroeconomics of natural disasters, natural capital and climate change.
He has been a long-time Visiting Scholar at the International Monetary Fund as part of the IMF-FCDO program on low-income countries and has worked extensively with the UK Department for International Development (now FCDO) including as a special advisor to the House of Lords Inquiry into Aid Effectiveness in 2012. From 2009-19 he was Lead Academic for Tanzania for the Oxford-LSE InChristopher Adamternational Growth Centre (IGC) and currently is an advisor to the IGC Policy Response Team.
He is the Delegate for Economics for Oxford University Press, Managing Editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and an associate editor of the Journal of Development Economics.
