Professor Sir Myles Wickstead KCMG CBE

Myles has had a long career in the Department for International Development and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

He has inter alia been Head of DFID’s European Community and Food Aid Department and Head of the British Development Division in Eastern Africa, responsible for British Government development programmes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. He coordinated the 1997 Government White Paper ‘Eliminating World Poverty: A Challenge for the 21st Century’; served on the Board of the World Bank (and as Development Counsellor at the British Embassy) in Washington; and was British Ambassador to Ethiopia, Djibouti and the African Union. He was from early 2004 to late 2005 Head of Secretariat to the Commission for Africa (CfA). The Commission’s Report ‘Our Common Interest’ formed the basis of the G8 Gleneagles Communique on Africa.

Having left Government service in late 2005, Myles is now Visiting Professor (International Relations) at King’s College London and Associate Professor at the University of Exeter. He has been and remains on the Boards and Advisory Councils of with a number of NGOs, Trusts and Foundations'. His book ‘Aid and Development: A Brief Introduction’ was published by Oxford University Press in June 2015.