Kevin Watkins is Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Economic Governance Programme. He is currently Director of UNESCO’s Education for All Global Monitoring Report – an annual report which examines progress towards internationally agreed goals in education. From 2004-2008, Kevin was Director of the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report Office. He was lead author of three Human Development Reports including the 2008/2009 report on climate change. Prior to joining the UN, Kevin was Head of Research at Oxfam, where he worked for thirteen years on a wide range of issues, including African debt, international trade, education and health policy. He was author of Oxfam’s Education Report (2000) and Rigged Rules and Double Standards (2003) – an analysis of international trade rules. Kevin has written extensively on a wide range of international development issues and is a regular contributor to a number of newspapers.

Kevin is a board member of the Center for Global Development, UNICEF’s Innocenti Center and the Journal of International Development. He holds a PhD from the University of Oxford, with a concentration in modern Indian history and economics.