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Alan Roe
Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow
Alan Roe has worked for more than 45 years as an academic economist and as a policy adviser. He has degrees from the Universities of Leeds, Wales and Cambridge. Early in his career he was a research economist at the University of Dar-es-Salaam and then at the University of Cambridge (Economic Growth Project) and later a Visiting Professor of Economics at Washington University in the USA.
He then taught economics for many years at the University of Warwick where he was also for a period the Chairman of Department. In 1994 he was appointed Principal Economist at the World Bank where he worked for 7 years to design and implement large financial sector reform projects in the economies of the Former Soviet Union.
After retiring from the Bank in 2000, he returned part-time to Warwick University but also joined Oxford Policy Management Limited (OPML) as Principal Economist and a Board Director. In this capacity he helped to initiate OPML’s involvement in both financial sector reform and in natural resources issues. Now retired he remains Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Warwick.
He has undertaken a number of case studies on the impacts of mining and oil and gas for both ICMM and a number of extractives companies. He was also a lead author of the Toolkit now employed by the International Council of Mining and Metals (ICMM) and their corporate members for analysing the economic and social impacts of large mining projects in low and middle-income economies. Ten country case studies utilising this Toolkit have now been completed – the latest in Brazil and Zambia.
He has written extensively in both books, academic journals and for other outlets including the first full-scale statistical analysis of flows of funds in the UK. His publications have also included early papers on interest rate policies in developing economies and on the particular problems of monetary management in Africa.
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Metals for the global energy transition: Opportunities and salutary lessons
In a series of high-level UN Roundtables , in which I participated in 2021, experts and stakeholders explored the risks and opportunities presented by the global clean energy transition...
Climate change Natural resources Economic developmentBlog
Can the electric vehicle revolution solve the climate crisis and create opportunities for developing countries? Electric vehicles (EVs) are confidently expected to decarbonize road transportation, contribute substantially to the net zero agenda, and so help to solve the climate crisis...
Climate change Natural resources Economic developmentBlog
Ukraine: War, energy, and net zero Just over seven months ago the United Nations convened its 26th Climate Change Conference (COP-26) in Glasgow, with the world nervously emerging from the pandemic...
Ukraine Climate change Extractives
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The zero carbon agenda and metals demand: some major dilemmas The transition to net zero over the next few decades will involve a large increase in the global demand for many metals essential to the renewables revolution driving that transition...
COP26 Climate change Extractive industriesNews
UNU-WIDER experts in key role in global roundtable process on extractivesOver the past eight months, various heads of state, ministers, and other stakeholders from around the world have participated in a dialogue to discuss the pressing issues and the future of the extractives sector. UNU-WIDER researchers Tony Addison...
Extractive industries Extractives United NationsPresentation
Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 5th UN Roundtable on ExtractivesOn 15 March, 2021, Tony Addison and Alan Roe , both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled ' Extractive industries and sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda in...
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Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 4th UN Roundtable on ExtractivesOn 4 February, 2021, Tony Addison and Alan Roe , both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled " Extractive industries and sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda...
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Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 3rd UN Roundtable on ExtractivesOn 20 January, 2021, Tony Addison adn Alan Roe, both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled "Extractive industries and sustainable development in the UNECE region".
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Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 2nd UN Roundtable on ExtractivesOn 9 December, 2020, Tony Addison and Alan Roe , both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled " Extractive industries and sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda...
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Tony Addison and Alan Roe at 1st UN Roundtable on ExtractivesOn 30 October, 2020, Tony Addison and Alan Roe , both Non-Resident Senior Research Fellows at UNU-WIDER, will be presenting at a high-level United Nations Roundtable titled " Extractive Industries as an Engine for Sustainable Development: The...
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Mozambique—bust before boom: Reflections on investment surges and new gasFrom the book: Mining for Change
Economic diversification Economic transformation Extractive industriesIn the media
UNU-WIDER book informs Forbes article on the future of extractives
Extractive industries Extractives Seminar
Public Forum: Mozambique as a natural gas exporter - Lessons from the past experiences
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UNU-WIDER researchers present at a conference of IMD in Maputo
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Tony Addison and Alan Roe present at the World Bank