Richard Kozul-Wright
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Global Economic Governance Initiative
- Education
- PhD, Economics, University of Cambridge
Richard Kozul-Wright is a Non-resident Senior Fellow with the Global Economic Governance Initiative at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center through April 2025. He is a Professor of Sustainable Structural Transformation at SOAS, University of London and previously worked at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva where he was Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division in the UN Conference on Trade and Development. He holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of Cambridge.
He has published widely on economic issues including, inter alia, in the Economic Journal, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, The Journal of Development Studies and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. Kozul-Wright is a co-editor of the Oxford Handbook on Industrial Policy (Oxford University Press) and author of The Case For a New Bretton Woods (with Kevin Gallagher) and The Resistible Rise of Market Fundamentalism (with Paul Rayment).
Mr. Kozul-Wright is a frequent contributor to newspapers worldwide on economic issues: including the Financial Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Project Syndicate, among others.