John Page

John Page is a Senior Fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. He is also affiliated with the International Growth Centre of the London School of Economics and Oxford University.

From 1980 to 2008 Dr. Page was a World Bank economist and manager, undertaking a wide range of research, policy and operational assignments, including Director, Poverty Reduction, Director, Economic Policy, and Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa.  He was the Chief Economist for the Africa Region of the World Bank from 2004 to 2008.

Prior to his appointment at the World Bank, Dr. Page was a member of the faculty at Stanford and Princeton Universities. From 1996 to 2006 he was Adjunct Professor at the Paul Nitze School of Advanced International Studies of Johns Hopkins University. In 2008 he was a Senior Associate Member of St. Anthony’s College and Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of African Economies at Oxford University. He was also Visiting Professor at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Page has been a consultant to the African Development Bank, the Global Development Network, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), the United Nations Industrial Development Program (UNIDO), and the World Bank. He has served on the Boards of Directors of the Africa Economic Research Consortium and the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey.

John Page obtained his Bachelors degree in economics from Stanford University and his Doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar.  He has published several books, including The East Asian Miracle:  Economic Growth and Public Policy (Oxford:  1993), Africa at a Turning Point? Growth, Aid and External Shocks (World Bank: 2008), and Breaking in and Moving Up: Industrial Challenges for the Bottom Billion and the Middle Income Countries (UNIDO: 2009). He is the author of more than seventy-five published articles on the economics of developing countries.