Richard Jolly (1934- ) is a senior research fellow at The City University of New York’s Graduate Center and co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project, and honorary professor at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, where he was director from 1972-81. He worked for the UN from 1982 to 2000, for fourteen years as deputy executive director of UNICEF and afterwards as special advisor to the administrator of UNDP and architect of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report. He chaired many UN committees involved in coordination. Richard Jolly graduated from Cambridge University and obtained his doctorate in economics from Yale University. He has honorary doctorates from the Universities of East Anglia and Sussex. Publications to which he has contributed include: UN Contributions to Development Thinking and Practice; Development with a Human Face; Adjustment with a Human Face; The UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions: New Challenges for the Twenty-First Century and Disarmament and World Development.

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