Duncan Green
Duncan Green is head
of research, Oxfam GB and the author of From Poverty to Power. After studying
Physics at Oxford University Duncan embarked on a post-university trip to South America in 1979-81 that set him on his current path in international
development.
He went on to teach English in Argentina,
at the height of the military dictatorship. Travelling and working in Latin America as a journalist during the civil war in El Salvador and the heyday of the Sandinistas
in Nicaragua, Duncan
saw time and again the David vs. Goliath nature of country and international
politics.
Duncan travelled to and wrote about Latin America for 15 years, writing several
books including Hidden Lives: Voices of Children in Latin America and the
Caribbean (1998); Silent Revolution: The Rise and Crisis of Market Economics in
Latin America (2003, 2nd edition) and Faces of Latin America (2006, 3rd edition).
In 1997, he moved to CAFOD, the Catholic aid agency for England
and Wales, as
Policy Analyst on Trade and Globalization. While at CAFOD he published many
papers, including The Northern WTO Agenda on Investment: Do as we say, not as
we did (with Ha Joon Chang, South Center/CAFOD, 2003), and Dumping on the Poor:
The Common Agricultural Policy, the WTO and International Development (with
Matthew Griffith, CAFOD, 2002). He was seconded from CAFOD to the UK
government’s Department for International Development in 2004, as a Senior
Policy Adviser on Trade and Development where he covered agricultural and
non-agricultural trade in goods. He took up his current post at Oxfam GB in
November 2004.
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